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With Oxygen. Drs. Harold Atkins and William Seaman of New York's Colum bia-Presbyterian Medical Center told of progress toward licking a basic problem-radiosensitivity. Since Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X rays, in 1895, radiotherapists have been trying to get radiation to destroy diseased tissue while letting healthy nearby tissue survive...
...Force, is out to enhance his company's reputation by intensifying research into atom-age metals. The new emphasis has already produced an important breakthrough in fabrication of superconductors i.e., metals which when chilled to absolute zero lose their resistance to electricity. Wah Chang labs are now making colum-bium-zirconium alloy wire that scientists believe can be used to utilize the energy released by controlled nuclear fission...
...nerves. Doctors have long assumed that a chemical reaction at the synapses (the junctions between nerves) causes the impulses to flow through the nerves until-through junction after junction-they reach the muscles. But the chemistry of impulse transmission along the nerve fibers was not known. Last week Colum bia University announced that Dr. David Nachmansohn and his colleagues in the university's Department of Neurology had found new evidence to support his 20-year-old theory of the biochemical reaction that lets a nerve carry a current, then shut...
...FELLOW DEVILS, by L. P. Hartley (413 pp.; British Book Centre; $3.95), introduces wealthy, prim and Protestant Margaret Pennefather, who hesitates when glamorous Colum Maclnnes proposes marriage. Not only is he a Roman Catholic but his origins are vague; though he has gone to an approved public school, Nick Burden and other classmates think him rather a bounder. Worse, Colum is a film star who looks like Marlon Brando and plays gangsters and crooks...
Margaret, at 28, has spirit enough to marry Colum even though it means leaving dear old daddy, who has been so dependent on her. At first, Colum is just wonderful to Margaret, but his friends seem a tacky lot. There is Mrs. Belmore, the rich, vulgar American, and beautiful but unladylike Lauriol, who seems to have certain claims on Colum that Margaret does not care to think about. More unsettling is the fact that Colum rapidly proves himself to be an unmitigated liar and a compulsive thief. One of his pranks causes the death of Mrs. Belmore, a nasty brush...