Chapter two

In Katie McCabe's "Like Something the Lord Made" I like the medical research that can be found throughout the story. For instance, McCabe lets the auidence know that "Blue Baby Syndrome" is a congenial heart defect. I also found it interesting how the author delayed telling the readers why Thomas doesn't have his medical degree and why he is allowed to operate.

I like the anecdotal eveidence of how Blalock's life differed from Thomas' but they could still meet on solid ground in the operating room and even later have a wonderful friendship. One image that gave me chills was when the author explained Thomas' first walk across the John Hopkins hospital. "On his first walk from the lab to Blalock's office in the hospital across campus, the Negro man in a lab coat halted traffic." Then the author goes onto tell us that there are separate entrances for black employees and later this is signficant when in the end in his biography Thomas has picture of himself and other black doctors standing in the main entrance where they couldn't go before.

Teresa Carpenter's "Death of a Playmate", was very graphic but I don't think the feature would have been the same without it. The crime was very cruesome and the story portrays that. I like how the author portrayed all the three men in her life as dependent upon her; Hefner wanted a star, Snider wanted fortune and fame, and Bodganovich needed someone to take care of. It didn't put Playboy into a good light--- the author even went as far as saying that Hefner is like Snider only classier. The ending was perfect, Snider's undying wish was to be somebody. I did think that Carpenter should have explained the relationship between Bogdanovich and the scandal with Cybill Shepherd. Carpenter tends to just gloss over it like it is common knowledge.
I was really interested by the fact there were always little hints that alluded to Stratten's naivety; "She was 18. It was the first time she had ever been on a plane."