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...virtually impersonal bodily function, and he is delighted to find himself in the presence of three attractive targets: Agatha (Madeleine Robinson), the young widow of Angelo's best friend in a prisoner of war camp; her burgeoning teenage daughter Sylvia (Dany Carrel); her sulky sister-in-law Pia (Magali Noël), a sensuous charmer with a body like molded quicksand. Angelo is not thinking of farm labors when he eyes the ladies tauntingly and husks: "You don't have a man?" Perceiving that this will doubtless blossom into an intimate family affair, he also assures them...
...Boston's Dr. Robert Edward Gross, then 33, operated successfully to eliminate a patent ductus arteriosus-a tubular connection between pulmonary artery and aorta that normally closes soon after birth. Falling back on Alexis Carrel's brilliant experiments in the early 1900s, which showed that arteries if handled properly can be cut apart and stitched together again, with or without an intervening graft, Gross next developed an operation to cut out an abnormal narrowing (coarctation) of the aorta...
...subjects range from the Nature of Music and the Masterpieces of Greek Literature to the History of Science. Last fall one professor started a series of seminars on Human Potentiality, soon had his students jumping from psychology to philosophy to religion, reading everything from Sorokin to Fromm to Alexis Carrel. Surprisingly, says Steere. the course has become the particular favorite of electrical engineers, "whom you usually think of as pretty restricted...
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Died. Henry Drysdale Dakin, 72. London-born research chemist whose specialization in military medicine led to his development (with Dr. Alexis Carrel) of Dakin's solution, a sodium hypochlorite wound antiseptic which saved hundreds of lives in World War I, won him the grateful thanks of France when he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; in Scarborough...