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Since the dawn of modern medicine the vermiform appendix has seemed to be a completely useless organ. This week, the University of Chicago's Dr. Leon 0. Jacobson suggested that a use for the appendix may have been found...
Meanwhile most people seemed to be as anxious as their mayors to get themselves counted. The average citizen had taken to asking: "Have you got counted yet?" and discussing the operation as if he had had his appendix removed...
Einstein, who believes passionately that such a law must exist, has devoted the last 30 years of his life to searching for it. A few months ago (TIME, Jan. 2), he published as an appendix to his third edition of The Meaning of Relativity his Generalized Theory of Gravitation, which he considers the long-sought link between electricity and gravitation, explaining the behavior of both electrons and stars...
After Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, 63, had a gall bladder and appendix operation in Cincinnati, his surgeon, Dr. Reed Shank, was startled by a long-distance call from Washington. Harry Truman was on the line saying: "He's a personal friend of mine and I wanted to hear directly from you how he's doing." Dr. Shank told the President that the patient's condition was "very good...
Between radio broadcasts in the near future, Bing Crosby planned to enter a hospital, have his appendix removed...