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...generation which had started to think after the flood. It had no traditions, and no memories to bind it to the old. vanished world. It was a generation born without an umbilical cord . . . colorless, barren voice . . . never smiled . . . absolute humorlessness . . . without frivolity, without melancholy . . . generation of modern Neanderthalers...
...certain types of T.B.-pulmonary (lung), miliary (small spots that may scatter through the body) and meningeal (brain and spinal cord)-streptomycin seemed to help. A few patients were completely cured, many of them gained weight and felt better during the four months' treatment. But in most patients the disease remained active; many infections developed resistance to the drug; the death rate was still high (up to 90% in some forms of the disease). And on many types of T.B. the drug had no appreciable effect at all. Most discouraging finding of all was that streptomycin, in the doses...
Commercial Control. A gadget to protect radio listeners from commercials was put on sale by Los Angeles' Gray Development Corp. The gadget plugs in at the radio's electric outlet and has a ten-foot cord leading to two pushbuttons. When the armchair listener hears a singing commercial which he would rather avoid, he presses button No. 1; the radio is cut off for 15 seconds. For a straight spiel, he pushes button No. 2, silencing the radio for 60 seconds. (The time interval can be adjusted.) Sales the first week: 1,000. Price...
Sharing the platform at the Dinner with Bolte were Wilbur J. Bender '26, AVC member and Dean-elect of the College, Cord Meyer, Jr., of the AVC National Planning Committee, and Edwin H. B. Pratt, State AVC Chairman. Meyer contended that steps toward "strengthening the U. N. in the direction of limited world government" spelled the only way to peace...
...purpose of the dinner, William E. Nelson 1G, chairman of the local organization's finance committee, said yesterday, is to help finance the chapter's national convention delegation at Milwaukee in June. Other guests at the banquet will include Cord Meyer, Jr., member of the A.V.C.'s national planning committee and a Littauer Fellow, and Arnold Rivkin 2L, New England regional vice-chairman...