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...general, the Journal frowns on sensationalism. Says President and Editor J. Donald Ferguson: "Circulation will balloon up just as well when it rains and people buy papers to put on their heads as when you dig up a good scandal, and the boost will last just about as long...
...results proved accurate in only one out of three cases, because nearly all the loose cancer cells went on down the intestinal tract or were destroyed by the stomach's digestive juices. Then Dr. Papanicolaou tried a device invented by Dr. Frederick G. Panico: a sausage-sized balloon with about 250 pieces of braided silk attached. The patient swallowed the balloon and about two feet of rubber tube with it. Once inside the stomach, the balloon was inflated and worked around for an hour so that the tufts of silk would pick up as many cells as possible...
...patients examined by the balloon method, operations later showed that 17 had cancer. The balloon-smear test had given a positive reaction in 14 of the cases and a suspicious reaction...
...Hollywood. 2. The history of baseball. 3. A balloon ascension. 4. Postwar Japan under MacArthur's leadership. 5. The Berlin airlift and postwar Germany...
...plus editorials in other newspapers unanimously rebuking the legislators for their attitude, the committee backed down, voted to forget about prosecution of Editor Fritchey and Publisher Stern. The most disappointed man in the committee room was undoubtedly Senator A. O. Rappelet. Legislative Clown Rappelet had brought along a huge balloon, a ball and four plastic fish, but the chairman never gave him the floor or the chance to put on his trained-seal...