Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1953 University Daily Kansan
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Smallest Brodie Twin Dies After 35 Days in Coma
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Chicago—(U.P.)—Roger Lee Brodie, whose fate was sealed on an operating table 35 days ago when he was separated from his stronger siamese twin, died last night after more than 800 hours in a deep coma.
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Twin Rodney Dee rested easily in a nearby crib while doctors and nurses made an eleventh hour attempt to save his brother.
Roger Lee's tiny body was sponged repeatedly in an attempt to bring down his rising body temperature.
Doctors had warned repeatedly that Roger's chances for life were "remote" and "unlikely." In the separation Dec. 17 a vital cranial blood vessel that the boys shared was given to Rodney Dee in a "survival of the fittest" operating table decision.
town his rising body temperature At about 9 p.m. CST the 15-month-old child's heart stopped beating.
Mr. and Mrs. Royt Brodie were coming to Chicago from their home in Ferris, Ill., today. Their country
line telephone was out of order when their son died, and they had to be brought to the telephone office in the little Illinois town to hear the tragic news.
The Brodies knew the separation of their siamese twis is a gamble but they consented to the operation. "I want to nurture 'a normal life' to their children.
Happily, the chances are excellent that Rodney Dee will live such a life.
The twins had been joined at the top of their heads and were almost normal both physically and mentally except for the freakish juncture. A fatal imperfection was the lack of separate sagittal sinus vein, the blood vessel that drains blood from the head.
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Republicans Rest After Wild Party
Washington — (U.P.) — Exhausted Republicans shuffled their throbbing feet out of their double-header inaugural ball early today to ring down the curtain on a wild three-day jubilee ending 20 years of political frustration.
The climax of the marathon merrymaking was so formal even press photographers wore tails.
It was so popular it was split in two sections.
It featured both living Republican presidents—present and past—and lesser politicians by the carload. Not a few of these were Democrats like Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), who once dreamed the 1953 inaugural ball would be for him.
President Eisenhower and his family spent an hour in the presidential box at the National Guard armory and then hurried away to put in an appearance at the other half of the affair at Georgetown University gymnasium.
But they got off to a late start. Like many another husband, the new President whipped into his white tie, tails and horn rimmed glasses in jig time—and then had to wait.
After 15 minutes, Mrs. Eisenhower, her daughter-in-law, and Mrs. John S. Doud, Mrs. Eisenhower's mother, finally appeared—the first lady in a
Miller Outlines Elements of Art
Art is the product of the mingling of two elements, the personality of the creative artist and his experiences coming from his social surroundings, according to Dwight C. Miller, instructor in history of art.
Previously this training was available only in the large medical centers and in research institutes on the East and West coasts.
The school will cover the use of radio-activity in clinical diagnosis. It will be presented throughout the first six months of this year.
Mr. Miller was the last speaker of the semester on the "Sociology on the Air" series over KLWN.
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The more intense and profound the artist's reaction to experience is, the more meaningful and forceful his works." Mr. Miller said. "It is axiomatic that the artist finds the roots of his inspiration deep within the social matrix which surrounds him."
Mr. Miller believes that the artist's creative faculties work along certain basic lines laid down by his culture which involves the conditioning of his outlook on life, his range of interests, his set of values and his attitude toward the meaning of human existence.
Nine nandleaders—including Guy Lombardo and Lionel Hampton—sent sweet and fast music through the halls, gayly decked out in white, gold, a little blue and large pasteboard eagles.
But there wasn't much dancing, what with the crowd. While the Eisenhower's were on the scene, the crowd mostly watched them.
KU Radio Physicists Aid Medical Training
Dr. Frank E. Hoecker, radio physicist at the University, and Paul Wilkinson, his assistant, will work with staff members of Vail hospital in Topeka to give doctors a training course in the latest methods of treatment and diagnosis.
When they weren't present, everyone just bumped into everyone else —five-star generals like Omar N. Bradley, movie stars, dowagers and diplomats, former President Herbert Hoover, and a sprinkling of ordinary folk.
The bedlam, at $12 a head, started at 10 p.m. EST and if the notables and some of the older guard hadn't started clearing out around midnight, later arrivals couldn't have crushed inside before the lights went out at 2 a.m.
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