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In this age of skepticism, it’s reassuring to know that at least two cherished American myths – Horatio Alger s model of the self-made man and the image of the visionary inventor tinkering in his garage – still exist in the person of Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty. This renowned Irish-American heart surgeon, who started his inventing career as a boy in Cincinnati, is responsible for devices that have revolutionized cardiovascular surgery over the past four decades. His products are credited with making such surgery less threatening to the lives of tens of millions of people.
Fogarty’s first medical invention, the Fogarty… Arterial
Bits and Pieces: Readers share their memories of Christmas and Santa
Ann Gasbarre
As a young boy, every holiday season Doug Taylor of Bexley had his picture taken with Santa Claus at Freedlander s Department Store on West Liberty Street. The annual trip to the store in downtown Wooster was always a popular holiday activity for area youngsters. I remember, wrote the 1958 Wooster High School graduate, the line to Santa s throne used to stretch all the way across the store’s overhead walkway. How cool was that? he asked. Oh, and of course sitting on Santa s lap on the store s second floor. I m convinced there was no cooler Santa than the Freedlander Santa.