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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ulcers are another man's high blood pressure. Ever since Hippocrates, doctors have believed that certain kinds of people lean toward certain kinds of diseases. Many a wild guess has been made about body types (e.g., tall, thin people get tuberculosis; short, fat ones get apoplexy). Last week two Manhattan doctors came out with a new formula, to help predict every man's psychosomatic risks...
After 20 years of study, Drs. Eli Moschowitz and Mata B. Roudin wrote their formula down: "Constitution times psychologic trauma gives hyperkinesis which results in psychosomatic disease." Translation: mental or emotional shock makes certain organs overactive; the patient's personality determines which organs will be affected. The kind of personality, rather than the kind of shock, is the key. The same kind of shock (e.g., death of a relative or loss of a job) might give one type of man stomach ulcers, another, ulcerative colitis. In the current New York State Journal of Medicine, Drs. Moschowitz and Roudin wrapped...
...turns up more & more mysterious matters. A very small ghost, much smaller than an electron, now haunts modern physics. Its name, for want of something better, is the "neutrino." No one has ever seen a neutrino, or any trace which one has left behind it, but physicists are pretty certain that neutrinos are real. Just possibly, they may be the most important things in the physical universe...
...dozens of industrial and insurance companies). Guided by their reports, FRB last week swung its sling. Under a section of the Clayton Antitrust Act that has never been used before, it quietly issued a stern order to Transamerica: show cause why FRB should not order it to end certain "monopolistic" practices. (Transamerica must answer the charges at a closed hearing in November, may appeal FRB's decision to the courts...
Sealskin in the Bathtub. The world has never been notably sane, but it exists under the convention that it is-just as in certain families there is an agreement not to notice that a "peculiar" aunt wears three hats to the breakfast table and a sealskin coat in the bathtub. Waugh's world simply ignores that convention. Lunacy is its norm, evil is without guilt, pain without pathos, and tragedy is comedy. Yet, in lucid intervals, the real world and Waugh's world are seen in part to be one. The degree to which they are so measures...