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...scores of laboratories gadgeteering goes on. Atomic medicines are being put into capsules, safer and easier to handle than long "hot" drinks. To irradiate cancers in the stomach and bladder, balloons are inserted which can be filled with radioactive liquid or fitted with a solid, pinpoint source of radioactivity. Radioactive gold wire is built into hollow nylon sutures to be stitched into a tumor. For external radiation, frighteningly powerful amounts of atomic energy are being baked into little wafers of cobalt ("the poor man's radium...
...France. Three months ago in Toulouse the socialists held a convention attended by delegates of the American Federation of Labor. The deteriorating economy of Spain, recent strikes in Barcelona and other cities, the reported illness of General Franco (he is expected soon to undergo an operation for a bladder ailment) spurred hopes of a new regime in Spain. The A.F.L.'s European representative, able Irving Brown, made a careful roundup of information available in Toulouse. Brown's conclusions, as reported last week by the New York
...Hawley was carrying what seemed to be a normal baby in an abnormal place -outside the abdomen. The fetus had slipped through a weak spot in the abdominal wall, left by an incision made years ago for a gall-bladder operation. Such cases are uncommon, but not unknown. Far more uncommon was the way Mrs. Hawley had carried the baby without medical attention...
More Unwashed Savages. He slashed at parsons ("bladder-headed sky-pilots") and their flocks: "It is gratifying to observe idiots crowding forward to be instructed in ignorance." He jeered at fraternal organizations ("The Improved Order of Flatheads"), composed A Rational Anthem ("My country, 'tis of thee,/Sweet land of felony"). Like many a cynic, he was an inverted idealist. He railed at corrupt politicos, fought the railroad barons, dubbed Leland Stanford "Zeland Stanford...
...replace convalescent Paul Hoffman (recently returned from a two-month leave of absence for a gall bladder operation), Harry Truman appointed Hoffman's deputy, William C. Foster, onetime machinery manufacturer who had been Under Secretary of Commerce under Averell Harriman. Hoffman had been disheartened by Congress' insistence that ECA's European currency funds should go for rearmament (although he heartily favored a separate military aid program). Nonetheless, he wrote the President, Bill Foster might well preside over "ECA's period of greatest usefulness...