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...When an epidemiologist begins to mine a mountain of case histories, death certificates and related data, he can be virtually sure to find: 1) evidence tending to confirm well-established theories, and 2) something totally unexpected. That is exactly what happened to Statistician E. Cuyler Hammond when he dug into the records of 352,000 men and 440,000 women enrolled nine years ago in the American Cancer Society's long-range epidemiological study...
...Bullpups will throw two fine running backs, Bob Kropke and Bernie Sowley, at the Yardlings in the featured football offering, at DeWitt Cuyler Field...
Nicotine demonstrably places dangerous strain upon the heart muscles. E. Cuyler Hammond, vice president of the American Cancer Society, told the subcommittee: "Milligram for milligram, nicotine is one of the most powerful and fastest acting of all known poisons." He added unhappily: "I doubt that habitual heavy smokers would be satisfied with cigarettes which contain little or no nicotine...
...answer, Statistician E. Cuyler Ham mond of the American Cancer Society reported last week, is devastatingly sim ple: for all their freedom, modern wom en do not smoke as much as men. On the average, they do not start smoking as young, do not inhale as deeply, and have not smoked for as many years. Hammond's statistics also show, however, that the closer women's smoking practices approach men's, the closer are their disease and death rates...
...Medicine at Bethesda, Md. Their task was not to do original research, but to evaluate 8,000 studies, many mainly statistical, by other investigators from around the world. The job included a last-minute appraisal of the massive analysis presented by the American Cancer Society's E. Cuyler Hammond to the A.M.A. in Portland, Ore. (TIME, Dec. 13). At the end of 14 months' study, the committee found that...