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Fifteen years ago, Yale Anatomist Harold Saxton Burr and New York University Gynecologist Louis Langman began to experiment with electrical tests for cancer. They had Yale Physicist Cecil T. Lane build a special microvoltmeter, which measures electrical potentials in microvolts (one-millionth of a volt). Last week, Researchers Burr and Langman announced preliminary results in diagnosing* cancer of the female genital tract...
...toward the right. At Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, cancer was detected in 74 out of 75 cases of women found by other tests to have cancer. Of 616 women shown to have no cancer by the test, only five were later found actually to have the disease. The Burr-Langman test cannot give the final word, say its inventors, but is an "adjunct" or helper test for other more complicated methods. It can be made in 25 minutes, may eventually prove useful in detecting cancer in other parts of the body...
...hits of the Whitney's show, as of any show, were the works in which form and content were so skillfully united as to be indistinguishable. Burr Miller's sleeping alabaster nude entitled Subconscious and Koren Der Harootian's swooping Sea Bird and Fish were two such sculptures...
Sunlit Boulder. Burly, balding Burr Miller began as a conservative figure sculptor. At 43, Miller best likes "carving nudes out of stone, but I also want to keep the quality of the stone itself, so I suppose I'm trying to blend realism and abstraction, in a way." The translucent alabaster boulder he used for Subconscious was what gave Miller his idea for the figure itself: "I used to turn the boulder and look at it a lot, in the sunlight that came in from the garden window, and after a while it got so I could practically...
...scale of box-office receipts, it is almost incredible to find motion pictures in which people talk and look and act just as they should. "The Little Minister" is one of them. Katherine Hepburn does the completely ingenuous ex-Gypsy girl, who wins over the young curate, with a burr in her voice and a freshness that trails heather and high hills. John Beal is carefully naive and confused as the preacher himself. The rest of Barrie's characters are animated with a fidelity and attention to detail that only one similar movie, "Great Expectations," has recently equalled. Max Steiner...