Mother offers to sell heart

Associated Press · [ca. August 1955]

Mrs. mildred Hitchcock, 36, mother of four children says she wants to sell her ailing heart for medical research after her death for $3,200 to buy a quiet country farm in brookline, vermont. Mrs. Hitchcock who has suffered all her life from a rare heart condition, said she and her husband Robert, a former polio victim, have a chance to leave their present quarters in hinsdale, N.H., and buy the small farm which would get the children ranging in age from 10 to 3 years, off the village streets. she is getting a helping hand from son Paul, 5, as they do the dinner dishes.