Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most controversial subject at the Cleveland meeting: sympathectomy-cutting the "sympathetic" nerves to reduce high blood pressure. Dr. Keith Grimson of Duke University, who sometimes cuts out the entire sympathetic nervous system, said that it helped in most of his cases and probably would be effective for a third of all hypertensive patients. Others thought that it seldom did much permanent good...
Thirty of the nation's leading circulation specialists and a group of industrial bigwigs met in Cleveland last week to launch the American Foundation for High Blood Pressure. Prime mover of the Foundation is Dr. Irvine Page of the Cleveland Clinic...
Said another: the city of Cleveland disposes of 28,000 stray dogs a year, but the Animal Protective League will not permit their use in laboratories. A California delegate complained that in his state unwanted dogs are made into fertilizer: "But ... we don't dare show visitors through our laboratories for fear they'll hear a dog bark...
Conductor George Szell of the Cleveland Orchestra first got him interested in the A problem. What orchestras needed for tuning purposes, Pickering decided, was a pure, unvarying note with no overtones. No ordinary loudspeaker (and no musical instrument) emits pure tones: what comes out is a mixture of dominant tone and any number of overtones...
...Cleveland Orchestra has been using the electronic A for nine months and the musicians are delighted with it. Recently Pickering delivered a portable model to New York's Metropolitan Opera. The Met's orchestra will use it in the pit; can take it on tour-regardless of its oboeists...