Word: bickford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Post-game revelry flared into violence early yesterday morning when three University students and group of Cambridge youths met in a brief but vicious free-for-all in front of the Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria...
...resist and the fighting edge of Harvard's academic flower. A signal light now stops traffic at the corner of Massachusetts and Holyoke. The calculating city council, which has its own supply of scouts, placed this light at the spot most likely to cause trouble for Harvard. With Hayes-Bickford's emergence as a favorite of young intellectuals taking a leisurely break between rising and lunch time, this corner has been essential for the physical health of Harvard. Dodging the vigilant cabs, cars and trucks that patrol Massachusetts Avenue was enough to test the mettle of any normally sedentary thinker...
...From the Mayo Clinic came a comprehensive report of elaborate investigations there by a distinguished team, one of whose stars is British-born Physiologist Reginald G. Bickford. The Mayo workers have placed electrodes deep in the brains of 13 patients at Rochester (Minn.) State Hospital to study schizophrenia, epilepsy and related seizures and brain tumors, always as a means of deciding exactly what surgery will be best. They have found that the deep brain waves make it possible to locate a tumor more precisely than ever before, and also to spot the damaged region which is causing epilepsy. These...
...Bickford and his colleagues have also turned up some fascinating sidelights which may mean much to the eventual charting of all the brain's currents. One epileptic patient, when a particular spot was stimulated, suddenly said, "I can see Joe." He soon explained that often, before a seizure, he had a mental picture of himself bathing with his friend Joe. The electrical stimulus had flashed that picture on his mind's screen. What may be just as important was the researchers' letdown: they could never get that picture back again...
...Cronin said yesterday that he could foresee no immediate price changes. The managers of Swanny's, the University Luncheonette, and Arthur Parker's concurred, while the local Hayes-Bickford admitted that they would have to await orders from their main office in Boston...