It was 3 o'clock one morning last week when a car carrying four bluejackets plunged over an embankment and hit a tree in Arlington, Va. Two of the sailors were scarcely hurt, but two died with broken necks.
At 7 a.m. word of the deaths was passed to the "decedent affairs desk" at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda. Md.. which in turn called Commander George W. Hyatt, director of the hospital's tissue bank. Dr. Hyatt, an orthopedic surgeon, seized the chance to turn a loss of life into a lifesaving procedure. He arranged for...
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