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...Ellen Koenig was a pretty, auburn-haired baby who seemed normal in every way when she was born in Cincinnati on Aug. 29, 1954. and she apparently throve on formula and some Pablum. At six months she seemed insatiably hungry. Still, her mother, a registered nurse, did not worry until 15 months, when Jo Ellen became abnormally irritable and puffy-faced. Doctors suspected leukemia-tests were negative. They thought of kidney disease-negative. Heart trouble-Jo Ellen was treated for three weeks and got no better. Finally they called in Blood Specialist Marion Eugene Lahey...
...Shrine of Lady Luck. Praeneste, often mentioned by the classical writers, was an ancient religious center 23 miles east of Rome in the Sabine hills. Sacred to the goddess Fortuna, it was the Roman world's bulkiest, solidest shrine. It throve for a thousand years, reaching its peak about the time of Christ, and was the last pagan center to be suppressed by Christianity. When Lady Luck was still lucky, her intricate complex of sacred buildings covered an area a dozen times bigger than St. Peter...
...General Secretary was able to dominate the Central Committee. He did so cleverly. He had a studied technique-to say little, to puff his pipe, while others talked and fought, then to announce quietly at the end which Comrade was right. He thus profited by their arguments and throve on their differences...
...cartoonist for Lord Beaverbrook's Tory London Evening Standard, David Low was often called the world's best political cartoonist. Socialist Low throve on cartooning for a Tory paper, at times sharply caricatured both his boss, .the Beaver, and the Conservative government. Three years ago, Low moved his cartoons to a paper closer to his own political views. He switched from the Standard to the dull, doctrinaire Daily Herald, official organ of the Labor party. Instead of pepping up the Herald as he was supposed to do, the Herald-and the fact that Labor was in power-seemed...
...looked in 1933 as though no one wanted a pediatrician with or without psychiatry. For several years Spock failed to make enough money to pay his Manhattan office rent. Then, one by one, patients came, and both mothers and children throve on the friendliness and reassurance of the young doctor who was as interested in finding out how a boy got along with his new baby sister as he was in giving inoculations. He was something of a presence, especially to little girls. "When he patted the glands in your throat, you felt you'd been blessed...