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When Davision opened last summer, the biggest single defect in the band was the lack of a trombone. There's no such lack now, with Sandy Williams, ex-Chick Webb and Coleman Hawkins. Sandy was troubled with a bad lip last Tuesday night, but that didn't prevent him from proving that he is one of the most unappreciated trombonists...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...when a section of nerve has been torn away. Chief difficulty has been to bind the severed nerve ends or grafts together: even the finest needles and threads (e.g., blood vessel sutures) lacerate the nerve bundles. Researchers at Oxford in 1940 discarded stitching and used a glue made of chick plasma to bind severed nerves together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Glued Nerves | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...abouts are unknown, has a brother in the Class of '46 who is on the Freshman-Jayvee squad. Bumy Hadley, Bill Snyder, Art Scully, and Jock Torgan, although all still in school, have not yet reported for practice for various reasons, while Billy Webber is in the Navy, and Chick Lutz is in the Army...

Author: By Melvin J. Kessel, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 11/24/1942 | See Source »

...syndicate to back him: 22 of them, including Jones, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Actor Frank Crumit, Socialite Tommy Tailer, Stockbroker Clifford Roberts, L. B. Maytag (washing machines), Bartlett Arkell (BeechNut Co.), Aired Severin Bourne (Singer sewing machines) and many another gold-spooned golfer. To manage their waif, they got Chick Wergeles, a Broadway press agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stork Club Champ | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...Bagdad boils." On leishmania vaccine, Dr. Neuwirth ran into a new difficulty. Iran is not rich in chickens, and he could not find enough eggs to make the quantities of leishmania vaccine he needed. So he ground up chick embryos, watered them down with a saline solution and added this to an ordinary culture medium. The vaccine develops nicely in this egg-stimulated solution, and a few eggs go a long way. Dr. Neuwirth is now testing his leishmania vaccine on 200 Iranian moppets, hoping if the treatment succeeds to save thousands from death or disfigurement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Omelets in Persia | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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