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...Within a year, surgeons may be able to take a big step forward in repairing coronary arteries in victims who have already suffered an occlusion, and so guard them against further attacks. The University of Minnesota's Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, one of last week's Lasker Award winners (see above), told the American College of Surgeons that he had used the technique successfully on dogs, was about ready to try it on human patients. A section of coronary artery near the chest wall (in which most occlusions occur) is either opened, scraped clean and sewed up again...
...memory of its famed alumnus, Sportswriter Grantland Rice ('01), Vanderbilt University announced that each year it will award a fat scholarship to the highschool student it thinks "the likeliest prospect in America to become a fine sportswriter." Financed by the Thoroughbred Racing Associations of the U.S., the scholarship will provide up to $1,800 for school expenses plus $500 for summer work in some phase of thoroughbred racing. Though Vanderbilt was not sure just how it would do the picking, it did make one stipulation: like Phi Bete Rice, the Rice of Tomorrow will take not journalism, but straight...
...controlling interest in his firm after going to Washington, but in no way "used or sought to use my official position to further the firm's interests." But Stro bel admitted that he had arranged for a $16,390 contract for remodeling a Government building to be awarded to a Manhattan architectural firm which was also one of his company's clients, even though the usual practice is to award such contracts after competitive bidding. Another time, said the committee, Strobel personally went to Ferrenz & Taylor, a Manhattan architectural firm which had hitherto done no business with...
Since the Harvard Athletic Association can schedule only Tufts College to face the Crimson eleven next year, it should at least add a modicum of interest to the game: award the Fietcher School of Diplomacy to the winner of the Harvard-Tufts contest and thereby settle the position of that school. Robert E. Ausnit...
...General William F. Dean, 56, top-ranking hero of the Korean war and for three grisly years a prisoner of the Chinese Reds, packed his military gear for retirement this week. Highlight of Medal-of-Honorman Dean's last parade at San Francisco's famed Presidio: the award of a combat infantryman's badge, which he missed...