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Hearts in
the news
THE human heart is making news in medicalW
circles these days
that hallow, muscular organ which is about the size of a clenched fist and the rate of seventy-two pulsations to the minute, is roughly conical in shape, and normally beats at though the tempo can be appreciably slower or faster (slower for trained athletes, incidentally).
whose heart save out In the course of a critical operation, Sergents massaged it back into life, but a week or two later in stopped again. The little girl
the
'An electronic stethorenpes has now been produerd, much more seltetive than the instrument of long-standing which has been mecelled with The family physician for so many years. The up-to-the-minute version is so extremely sensitive that it surgeons at the hospital where
can identify a "hole-in-the- heart" baby weeks before it is born,
The new instrument is known ag the sondreupe. It is so small the a doctor can carry it in hie
was suffering from a "hole
heurl" condition). The
she was being treated How introduced a tiny wire with a small shock-tip Into her heart, and plugged the other end of the wire into the Pacemaker,
When the maching
Was i
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1959.
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NEW YORK NEWSLETTER from George Whiting
Gypsy knocks them for six
on old Broadway
New York. THAT'S happening in
New York? Well, Gypsy Rosé Lee
and Bess have come out has said "Move over" lo Eliza Doolittle, Porgy
in Technicolor, Toots Shor is shutting up shop, Mrs Bessie Kajouras has had quads Staten Island, and they're thought up a new drink called the Big Opu at 15s a glass.
over
on
Gypsy Rose Lee, who lives house here in a 26-roamned with
seven baths and a poo! in the patio, made her es the world's No. 1 evdlyskast.
pocket, yet it is powerful enough switched on, the Draughty
to relay the sting of a beating heart through a loud-speaker.
Other heart news and kerlening new concerns people living lodag who have ul- reatly dled once, They owe their restoration to the land of the Bving to a plver of electrical equipment known to jurgeois, light-heartedly, as the Puce- maker, and the circumstances surrounding une particular case make Interesting reading.
AN OLD MAN
This is the case of a man who Is approaching eighty years of nge. He was suffering from heart-allment that caused it to He was brought back cut out." to life by the Pacemaker and, while being treated for hit inuindy, was kept alive for more than ninely days with a fifty- fout lead linking is her to the electrical apparatus,
He was actually able to take abort strolls, as though an a leash, and every time his heari
Beart begon to beat once more, and she hard since been dis- charged from hospital Sub allowed to go back home,
THOUSANDS
Coperations on the heart are becoming more and more con- monplace in this modern age of iniracles Yet less than seventy years have elapsed since the Arst successful
(or suture stiching) of a heart wound was
That event, white performed, impressed the medical world
name
And, if the exact meaning creapes you, un codysiast. la a stripper--11 hedder of oulu coverhigs. And Miss Lee sure dd strip. The original gove- phople_girl.
They've now made a musical of hers draughty career, culled it Gypsy kneeked Broadway for xlx and put the theatre ticket binkers brck In the bicoket that kept them in mink during the carly days of My Fair Lady.
in 1806, and the man responsible mightly at the time, took place Racket for 10 achievement was German surgeon named Hehn.
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Thousands of soldiers all over the world have since owed their vs to surgeons performing the operation that Reim ploneered-- ad, in peacetime, quite a num- ber of Negroes in the southern rites of America have survived heart-wounds because of this same operation,
For it is a rurious fact that wounds of the heart
To have seen Gypsy is to get tickets to schip single you out as is somebody customary Kerbside
GYPSY ROSE LEK.
on their limelight and a substantial slice pitches of the profits, will run for years. theatre at 1081 And if it gets to London, es it at my botel has been calling Broadway. As for the gramo- most asuredly should it will my phone records, they appear to run for more years-though you with be baking them und selling had better keep your maiden Dem like strawberry short ani away. Parts of Gyper dre
well you know, kind up all revealing
free
in New York. The head porter outside the
me "Sir" since he spotted programme-issued my 70s, seat,
You cannot book seats til cake. well into the autumn, you know a rather less honest broker willing to black market turkey at up
14 per all.
unters
then One day you, too, will either talk be enraptured OT enraged by to such numbers as Mr Goldstone, I Love You, and Everything's He stands to lose his licence Coming Up Rose. Compiser Jule they are involved in war, such, if he is caught exceeding his Styne, by the way, is London
legitimate five per cen!, but burn.
faltered 4 one-and-a-half- whereas
volt shock automatically "pepped it back into action, It is said that in point of fort he died twice-though today he lives.
At the other end of the age- zenle
ia
two-year-old girl
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are rare in most countries unless
injuries are relatively among coloured men
the in Cotton Belt of the U.S.A. One surgeon there has claimed a cil of twenty-three operations patients suffering from heart- wounds, to a period of eight years.
Before 1896, and back through the centuries, the only 'success-
ful' operations performed on the heart were its removal after death-for the gruppose of separate burial.
REMOVED
Burial of the heart apart from the body was fairly usual practice for hundreds of years where celebrated men were -beersted. They say I was practice that originated In ancient Expyl, and it retainly. Had a vogue in medieval Europe.
Several of the Norman- English kings had their bearts removed after death, Richard Coeur-de-Lion's was preserved in rusket and placed in the Cathedral of Rouen, Normandy. Edward the First's-was buried at Jerusalem in the Holy lanel,
Better known"lo bisterians is the episode In which the heart of Robert Bruce gured, the Ring of Scots who wrecked Edward the First's ambitious plans for the conquest of Scol- land. Bruce's heart Wus entrusted to a famed knight, f Lord Douglas, who intended to carry it to the Holy Land In recordance with the king's dying wish; but Douglas brakte his Journey to help the Spanlards fight serin the Moors, und fell
baile with the heart of 1ce in a silver casket hang- g from his neck. The casket rected, token back Scotland, and burled after all In Melrose Abbey.
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who cares? A racket's a rackel,
Gypsy
The musical about the world's Number One,
stripper has become THE thing to 800
and taken the ticket brokers back to
the mink days of My Fair Lady
the fashionable part of Now York what kind of doctor looka after you? A Briton
I called on one of the patienta at the super fashionable," super de-luxe big deal 15-storey hoa- pital opposite Mayor Wagner'a mansion on 88th Street-and found that all 15 of the realdent
Ethel Morman bliske her way bellove that the rereen versions house surgeons are either Eng- through the part of Gypsy Rose's of Pargy (Sydney Pottier), Bess lich, Welsh, Scots, Australian or mother, a bludgeonli, warm- (Dorothy Dandridge), Sportin South African." hearted, noisy, never-nice-no- Lite (Sammy Davis, Junr.) and for-an-answer
All the best pallents go there, kind of mother Maria (Pearl Belley) will be
Mrs Roosevelt and who, secking to rocket her with us ts. long as have their from
Morgarel Truman, to tired busi- daughter to stardom, lands her stage originals.
esmen seeking refuge from eventually among pathelle
at £10 movie Manhatan turmoil а bunch of striptease girls in One thing about
✡ sleazy burlesque house.
opera-nobedy las to worry day. If one of them sneezes it abcut the tenor's temperament is a British doctor who whips From then on Gypsy Rose- or the soprano's sore throat.
pronto to the bedside. played by San Francisco's Sandra
The
Church becomes an anatomical Farewell
phonomenon. And how! more she takes off the more she gels on.
Transfer
Weeden barricades were up on Broadway's noise-and-neon strip when crippled Porgy and Bit-skirt Besa, after 24 years of stage opera Anally transferred their tear-jerking love affair to the screen-the widest screen in the world, naturally.
pistol-packin' cops half a block I bad to show my pass to away from the celebrity-studded premiere at the Warner Theatre. Mounted police kept everybody moving-or else.
The peasants, meaning those who will be asked to buy tickets later, were directed to walk on the other side of the street until Sum Goldwyn and his acolytes had settled in.
The film jumpe around a little
Meanwhile,
on
West
Street,
300 sportsmen theatrical folk
Д
One such house surgeon, On Englishman, is still having hia leg pulted by his colleagues. Hie is the one who attended Marilyn
atat Monroc and never recognized and her.
+ were saying hh farewell to Tools Shor, a
wide-cpen Broadwayite whose The quads
restaurant and Baloon ore being diamantled. You have to be im- portant to get in and rich to get out.
Tuxedos were worn, sentiment sozed, insulis kept pace with the Scotch and there was not a dry throat in the place,
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Quads Leon, Anthea, Paul and Michael arrived within on hour to gladden the heuris and com- plicate the economy of phlo- sophy student Bessie Kojouras and her truckt-driver-cum-law graduate husband, Alex.
Looks like Beasle will need all
About Big Opu.
contains her philosophy and Alex all his liqueure and lime. champagne.
unspecified law. They face an evletion order gin,
and catches from their third-floor walk-up" up with you at a mock South pariment over a sweatshop. Bea island inn, where you also qua?! Tahiti, which has
And if you still think life is pear on top for 10s., or Bear- plon, which comes at you with a just a bowl of Big Opu here, 1 gardenia floating
rum for report that Richard Fox, 12a. Od.
It is bray, bright, exuberant, vulger, ' sentimental, tuneful, professionel and besomy. I also thought it ingenuous at the start, trying to alve movement to the All British
*1
can
•
but patience is well rewarded operatic original, but Gershwin, when they start taking the I am
remains glad to
say, near-immortal mickey out” with
of the
Dm ccdysiast unmurdered. I
no movie If you cut your finger, get run taking all the business.
'expert, but I am prepared to over or are having a baby in
Business for Gypsy so hot that even the sealpers cannot Ethel Merman
1
agad
two months, has died of rat bites after his terrified mother Found him covered with blood in their alum home on Coney taland. Richard's father is unemployed and the family on relief.
-London Express Servico).
The big jinx that rides with
Stirling
EI
Moss
Ead luck all the way. And that is not the whole story. For Moss -belitves his jinx started at the
end of last season.
championship three times, is now bewildered?
genius
the
But because of his he docs exact more from a car, bccuuso ho makes it go faster Although his driving has not tion poselbly anyone we have been impaired in any way, he known in the past, and that What was his problem? After now wears a constant frown. Includes Fangio
and Mike Hawthorn won the world 1fc appears to have lost his old legendary Tarzlo Nuvolari, championship last year Most zrst in everyday life. dctermined to do the same but
Today Moss has a problem Some people are saying, of which only he-ond luck-can In a British car.
cours, that it cannot always be rtsolve, the fault of the car when Moss breaks down. They say that because he goes faster than any other driver he must push the car more than the others.
He was confronted with a per- Which cari
MIGHTY disappointed men pulled out of this year's Le Mans, the drivers and co-drivers whose 10 cars broke down or crashed in last month's savage and wrecking race. And by far the most disappointed and dis- plexing choice. couraged and bewildered was Stirling Moss, the man who four times out of five this season has been leading in ä. big-time event but has seen his cars come to a creaking or wheezing stop long before the finishing flag.
And as he drove off after- words with Katle, bis solemn Du sympathetic wife, sitting beside bim and his anxious-
by BASIL CARDEW
ed father in the back scat, he front....but only for 000 miles 1,000-kilometre suid to me: "How long is this of the 2,700 milos test, Jinx going to dog me? When,
for Pete's sake, is my kirk going to change?!
When... Yes, when? This
And again his engine broke.
"So you can well understand,"
is the question the whole racing seid Moss, "that I could hardly world is asking, for Moss is now believe it when I passed the fag acknowledged even by his first a fortnight earlier in the fiercest rivals in the high speed hierarchy to be the fastest and most poilshed driver anywhere today.
BREAKDOWN
I have sat with Moss in his fat in London while he bus recupped the staggering serles of finxes that have ridden with him almost every time he takes a ear on a road surface or track.
THERE WAS the Monaco Grand Prix, Ather 80 of the 100 lapa. the whìn họ was one minute 10 seconds ahead of Jack Brabham and the entire rouring field-his Cooper's gear- box fulled,
THERE WAS the B.R.M. Nasco in the International Trophy race at Silverstone. After only three miles the all pipe of his car broke and threw him off at a corner,
THERE WAS the second world championship race, the Dutch Grand Prix at Zand- voort. For half an hour Moss, the tough, wily driver who uses his head as much as his hands and feet, kept among the olso rans to nurse his car
THE MISHAPS
When surely bui, gently ho overlook the Swede Joo Bonnier's B.R.M. and showed the 35 other Grand Prix drivers exactly how Immaculately to handle a car at speed, then ngain his Cooper failed:
Then came the big 24-hour ruce when his sports car, on Aston Martin, was nicely in
race
on
There was the new B.R.M. potent, but still suspect. And Robb Walker's Coopers,
FASTEST
Then the Vanwalls come back when. Tony Vandervell recover-
These things have sometimes ed his health. Moss tested the been said with a neer and a new models, found them nowink. But this talk is unjust, faster than last year, told Van unfair, and vindictive. the
dervell: "I'll test the Vanwall again when you put it right."
Nurburg Hing.
"But even then I had to be questioned about a Swiss driver's crash and subsequent death."
I have watched Moss drive in So can you wonder that Moss, a hundred races and I believe who at 29 has been racing for that he handles a car with 10 years, won the British Gold feeling and cure; he corners Trial and fallure, but nol Sin half a dozen times and with the lightest of touches and
been runner-up for the world the minimum of braking. error, at least from the driver.
He has only one point in the world championship, Men who will freely admit that they are not
quité in his class-like Jack Brabhams and Joe Banuler, who have beaten him in his last two Grand Prix races-pre many points" above him in the table.
Mass knows that one more fullure will mean that he will have a slender chance of schlev
of ing his He's ambition winning the championship and then relicing.
I am crossing my fingers for hiin. For Britain has produced the greatest and, fastest man of them all in a racing car-ond that man is Stirling Moss,
"Tennis-is certainly keeping YOU fit,"
London Express Device.
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