Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presence of electricity in animal brains has been known since 1874; variations in the brain's electrical patterns have been used as a test for epilepsy in human beings since 1929. Dr. Grenell used a microvoltmeter to measure minute amounts of direct current; direct current, he thinks, reflects slow body processes like cell growth. He put his microvoltmeter inside a black plastic cabinet about the size of a cigar box. Then he attached two ordinary electrodes made from medicine droppers...
...Grenell has not figured out the basic cause of the dramatic variations; he thinks that there must be some sort of metabolic upset in the brain cells of schizophrenic patients. Last week he was experimenting with his little black box to find out if age, sex, pregnancy or serious illness can affect his readings...
Died. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, 59, topflight football coach; after a brain tumor operation; in Pittsburgh. Light on razzle-dazzle and heavy on rock-&-sock fundamentals, he got the University of Pittsburgh five Rose Bowl bids in his 15 years (1924-39) as coach there, afterwards boosted the lowly Pittsburgh Steelers professional team to a position of power in the National League. His outstanding lifetime winning percentage...
...A.A.G.P. started, the delegates picked Louisiana's tall (6 ft. 2 in.), Texas-born Dr. Jason Poland Sanders. Like most Texans, he has no inferiority complex. Says he: "I never feel I have to apologize to any specialist. A man may know brain surgery, but I know more about feeding babies." Back home, Dr. Sanders, a greying 54, hustled to get his state's organization started fast. He knew the family doctor's problems. For 21 years he had been a general practitioner in Caspiana (pop. 265) and in Shreveport, where he runs the Sanders Clinic. Within...
Born. To William Samuel Paley, 46, well-tailored board chairman and principal stockholder of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and Barbara Gushing Mortimer Paley, 31, perennially best-dressed daughter of the late, great brain surgeon Harvey Gushing, sister of Betsey Gushing Roosevelt Whitney and Mary Gushing Astor: their first child, his third,* her third, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Gushing. Weight...