Word: cornman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music Department presented the second in its spring term series of free concerts. In a program which was too long and too varied, no one would have missed the Beethoven March, nor did the somewhat uninspired rendition of Mozart's Sonata in D Major justify its inclusion. Pianists Robert Cornman and Leonid Hambro showed their grasp of the nineteenth century, however, in Schubert's Eight Variations, which predicted the styles of his successors with remarkable accuracy...
Tonight at 8:30 in Sanders Theater, the Music Department presents the second in its series of free concerts this term. Pianists Robert Cornman and Leonid Hambro will play with Alfred Howard and Abraham Marcus on percussion...
...reported Drs. Richard Ormsbee and Ivor Cornman, podophyllin cannot be used on cancer patients until someone isolates its cancer-killing element and separates that from the rest. In any sizable quantity, the root is poisonous...
These remarkable results were obtained by a man who is not a doctor. He is Corporal Ivor Cornman, 28, who was studying at the University of Michigan for a Ph.D. when he joined the Army in 1942. His experiment was done on a 45-day furlough at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. Says Corporal Cornman in this week's Science: "'[These studies] have revealed a selective lethal effect of penicillin upon rat and mouse sarcoma cells, of which a full account will be published later...
Lest his report make cancer sufferers prematurely hopeful, Drs. Margaret Reed Lewis and Warren Harmon Lewis (husband & wife), who used to supervise Corporal Cornman's experiments at the Institute, said last week that much work must still be done before anyone can be sure whether or not penicillin can fight cancers growing in animals or people. Dr. Francis Carter Wood, retired head of the cancer research at Columbia University, added the warning that Cornman's experiment applies only to a special type of mouse tumor, may not apply to any other...