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Pioneering heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey speaks after being presented with the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2008. DeBakey, whose clients ranged from actress Marlene Dietrich to Russian president Boris Yeltsin, has died in Houston, Texas, at the age of 99, media reports said on July 12, 2008. The Houston Chronicle said Debakey died of "natural causes" late July 11 at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, where the surgeon who pioneered heart bypass operations had worked. During his career, he estimated that he had performed more than 60,000 operations, the paper said. Many illustrious names dotted that list, including the US presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and the last Shah of Iran and King Hussein of Jordan.
Allen Goodrich, archivist at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, walks from the library's Ernest Hemingway Collection room in Boston, Thursday morning, March 29, 2007. The JFK Library released letters and telegrams written by Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich Thursday. One of the only photographs of Hemingway and Dietrich together is seen at right.
Author Ernest Hemingway thanks his friend Marlene Dietrich in a March 5, 1955 telegram for an article she wrote about him in the Herald Tribune Magazine titled "The Most Interesting Man I Know." Letters written by Hemingway to Detrich were released in Boston Thursday morning March 29, 2007 by the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library.
Personal letters, photographs and magazine articles written by and about Ernest Hemingway and Marlene Dietrich are on display as part of the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston, Thursday morning, March 29, 2007. The JFK Library released letters and telegrams written by Hemingway to Dietrich Thursday.