Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research team headed by Surgeon Harvey R. Bernard at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis has spent years seeking answers to these fundamental questions. One clear conclusion: surgeons, nurses and patients themselves carry most of the dangerous germs, especially the resistant strains of staphylococci, into the operating theater. Relatively few appear in the air, and it makes little difference whether the air is continually drawn fresh from outdoors, or whether it is recirculated after filtering...
...humidity, Dr. Bernard's team reports in Surgery, that contributes most to the safety of the air. Fortunately, what is comfortable for people seems to be deadly for many bacteria, notably staph. The germs thrive in dry air (relative humidity less than 35%), and in moist air (65% or over). They languish and die in the middle zone. So the St. Louis researchers recommend keeping the humidity control on operating-room air conditioners at the 50% evel-a setting that is best for operat-ng personnel, worst for germs, and moist enough to minimize the ever-present danger...
Surely Shakespeare's own oeuvre can support an institution unaided. If not, then let the Festival cease parading under a false name. Let it become, say, the American Festival of Playwrights Whose Names Begin with S-H-A. Then it can offer not only Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw but also Irwin Shaw and Shairp and Shakhovsky and Shadwell. But when a so-called American Shakespeare Festival puts on Caesar and Cleopatra, the proper comment can only be "Pshaw...
...Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford on Avon. And although Wars of the Roses is stuffed with lines that Shakespeare never wrote, it has won the unanimous praise of the London critics. "A landmark and beacon in the postwar English theater," said the Daily Mail's usually savage Bernard Levin...
...Died. Bernard Hamilton Stauffer, 63, founder of Stauffer Laboratories, and developer (in 1938) of the first big-time reducing machines, who parleyed his jiggling "Magic Couches" into a nationwide chain of 250 franchised salons before the Federal Trade Commission charged in 1960 that his machines "were of no value in reducing weight," after which business suffered a sharp decline; of a heart attack; in San Gabriel, Calif...