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Somehow, Sommerfield survived ten weeks with his badly damaged (and somewhat enlarged) heart, then went under the knives of a Baylor College of Medicine team of surgeons headed by Michael E. DeBakey and Denton A. Cooley (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery in the Heart | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...Societies for Experimental Biology, to tell of advances in their fight to gain life-saving knowledge. Outstanding items: ¶ The pituitary gland, long given homage as producer of the "master" hormone ACTH,* is itself the slave of a truly imperial hormone secreted by a part of the brain, reported Baylor University's Physiologist Roger Guillemin. From the hypothalamus, an ancient part of the brain, Guillemin and Baylor colleagues have isolated a highly potent fraction, "hypothalamic D," which puts the pituitary to work when the animal (or human) is faced by physical or mental stress. Also named the "ACTH-hypophysiotropic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress Reports | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...Baylor University, E. Hudson Long of the English department says: "Some of our freshmen can't read. They can't spell and they can't learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: THE FIRST R | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Without Waste. Short, grey-haired Paul Kayser, one of few men in the oil and gas industry who is usually called Mr., was born on an East Texas farm. He attended Baylor University at the cut-rate tuition for preministerial students, decided against the ministry, took up law, eventually reimbursed Baylor for the rate cut. As a lawyer in Houston, he worked his way up to the position of top attorney for Texas Financier Jesse Jones. In 1928 he began wondering why El Paso was using costly synthetic gas. while in the Permian Basin, 200 miles away, residue gas from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: The Watch Spring | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Unable to pay for medical school after graduation, Paul stayed on at Baylor for his Master's degree in zoology, proctored and graded papers for a living. After a two-year teaching job, he moved on to the University of Texas, where he studied for a Ph.D. in biophysics. Five years later, at 29, John Paul Stapp, Ph.D., finally entered the University of Minnesota Medical School. In addition to studying, he taught and worked as a research assistant. Somehow, he managed to earn the degree he wanted most: Doctor of Medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Fastest Man on Earth | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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