Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirchner: Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano and Sonata Concertonte for Violin and Piano (Nathan Rubin, George Neikrug, Eudice Shapiro, Leon Kirchner; Epic). Another Fromm-Epic collaboration, this disk displays Brooklyn-born Leon Kirchner, 38, at his ear-bending, brain-taxing best. Relentlessly driving, violently dissonant, Kirchner's Trio is broken by occasionally wistful lyrical interludes that give way unexpectedly to snarling climaxes. Equally busy and complex, the Sonata Concertante abounds in the strobe-lighted flashes of musical ideas that fitfully illuminate all of Kirchner's works...
...Brain & Heart. The hospital's first surgeon in chief was the late great Harvey Gushing, who immediately began to develop the improvements in technique which made brain surgery a lifesaving, everyday procedure. Working side by side with Gushing was a radiologist. Dr. Merrill Sosman, who pioneered X-ray treatment for pituitary tumors. In 1920 Surgeon Elliott Cutler made a daring attempt at surgery inside the heart, to correct a narrowed mitral valve; it was crude and premature (all but one patient died), but it helped pave the way for one of his pupils, Dwight Emary Harken...
...volt unit, it generates electrons in a straight line, fires them at precious-metal targets to produce X-rays that can be focused sharply on cancers deep in the body. Of 74 patients treated, with a variety of tumors in the throat, lungs, prostate, kidney, bladder and brain, two-thirds now show no sign of disease, though no cures will be claimed for five years...
...product line, like an iceberg, is 90% invisible. Eventually R-W hopes that almost everything will have a peacetime application. On its production line last week was what R-W claims is the most versatile airborne computer for its size ever built. Weighing only 175 Ibs., the transistorized brain can multiply as rapidly (4,000 calculations per second) and remember as many instructions (2,000) as a room-sized computer of 19 tons. Late this summer R-W will put on the market a civilian cousin, which it hopes will completely automate such industries as oil refining, chemicals, metals, drugs...
...electronic air purifier that removes 90% of all bacteria and pollen from room air. And Sylvania, one of the fastest-moving companies of all, is perfecting the electronic "light sandwiches" for the home of tomorrow. Two new advances: Bendix last week unveiled an automated machine tool with an electronic brain that "reads" coded information on punched tape, automatically guides a 50-ton milling machine turning out precision aircraft and missile parts; National Cash Register this week marketed a "Post-Tronic" banking machine that electronically posts depositors' checks, virtually eliminates the possibility of a clerical error. In another few months...