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...woman survived and now competently directs a large household. Her memory is not so good as it once was, but she does | not lose the thread of magazine continued stories. All this is most unorthodox according to the hitherto accepted principles of brain physiology. But to Dr. Leland B. Alford of St. Louis, also at the psychiatrists' meeting, the Pittsburgh woman's case did not come as much of a surprise...
...loss of large portions of grey and white matter without serious physical impairment has led Dr. Alford to search for a comparatively small "core of intelligence" in the brain. He found it, he told the Association last week, in "a quite small area, lying posteriorly near the base of the brain." In right-handed individuals this core is located in the left half of the brain; in left-handed ones, in the right hemisphere. Said Dr. Alford: "This area is responsible, when injured, for clouding, confusion and dementia. No other part of the brain, when injured, produces similar impairment...
...Alford, Jr, '40, H. B. Caldwell '40, G. M. Clements '40, R. W. Day '39, R. I. Downs, Jr, '39, D. S. Epstein '39, R. W. Gordon '38, R. S. Hall '40, R. Holder '40, F. G. Morris '38, J. N. Muller '40, L. J. Profit Sp., R. J. Ryan '40, R. H. Shepard '40, N. C. Updegraff '40, J. R. van Horne, Jr, '40, A. A. Vitagliano '39, W. Whitman '38, and R. D. Woodward...
Rare is the ship captain, locomotive engineer or plane pilot who can or will articulate, with skill at words commensurate with his skill at the controls, his, sensations while in action. More articulate than many a fulltime writer, however, is Major Alford Joseph ("Al") Williams of the Marine Corps Reserve who, besides flying planes at top speeds, writes about aeronautics for magazines, is currently doing a series for Scripps-Howard...
...lectures were established in 1894 under the bequest of Miss Caroline H. Ingersoll, in memory of her father, George G. Ingersoll, class of 1815. The Ingersoll lecturer last year was William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity...