Word: becks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 16 years Dr. Claude S. Beck of Cleveland's Western Reserve University has been trying to find a safe way to give back enough blood to a starving heart to keep it going. A new Beck technique is reported in a recent Journal of the American Medical Association...
After 700 operations on 350 dogs, Dr. Beck was ready last January for a human patient. First he cut a piece about two inches long out of the brachial artery, which supplies the arm; the arm has plenty of blood supply and would not be crippled. Then he used the borrowed segment to make a new channel connecting the aorta, the body's main artery, with the coronary sinus, the heart's main vein. He thus reversed the normal course of the blood and made it flow backward.. In effect, he turned a vein into an artery...
When crusty old (66) Thomas H. Beck, board chairman of Crowell-Collier, rolled up his sleeves and went to work on Collier's a month ago, the weekly was still making money, contrary to rumors. But Tom Beck, with a worried glance at Look (see above), thought Collier's needed a good shaking up. Last week he shook...
...Oregon for sex education. Six years later, the state legislature made the subject compulsory in junior and senior high schools. Oregon first tried pamphlets, lectures and then lantern slides, but found too much margin for error and embarrassment on the part of teachers. In 1946 Professor Lester F. Beck, a University of Oregon psychologist, worked out a movie script. Its thesis: "The love life of the worm is an evasion of the human problem. Human sex should be taught honestly and scientifically." He tried his script on other scientists and educators, then submitted it to nine Hollywood producers. A documentary...
...final scene, the children raise frank questions about the animated film, which the teacher answers. The movie ends on an intentionally abrupt note, to suggest that there are other questions left unasked and unanswered. Professor Beck has prepared a classroom manual to get the Oregon teachers past the toughest questions...