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...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...
Only the top pitching has kept the club in the league. Vern Bickford and Warren Spahn have been winning, but Johnny Saln has been losing. Max Surkont has been the Braves' only pleasant surprise...
Team: Brooklyn Dodgers Pitcher: Bickford, Boston (5-1) Batter: Robinson, Brooklyn (.409) Runs Batted In: Pafko, Chicago (22) Home Runs: Hodges, Brooklyn...