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...Paul R. Hawley, onetime Veterans Administration medical boss and now executive director for Blue Cross-Blue Shield, is dead set against compulsory health insurance. He is also a realist. In Washington last week, speaking to the District Medical Society, he sounded a warning: doctors getting set for an all-out fight against compulsory health insurance had better put their own house in order. Hawley had been talking to people all over the country, he said, and "I've come to the conclusion, with a great deal of regret, that the confidence of some of our people has been shaken...
...William S. Tillett and L. R. Christensen of the New York University School of Medicine, jointly, for discovering and purifying streptokinase and streptodornase, enzyme substances effective against clots in the body (e.g., pus or dead tissue) which delay healing. ¶Drs. Edward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench of the Mayo Clinic, jointly, for work which led to the development of the dramatic easer of arthritis, cortisone (TIME...
...Leger has lost none of his fire. Cluttering his little Left Bank studio are sketches for a book to be called The Circus, costume and set designs for the new Darius Milhaud opera Bolivar, and studies for a memorial to the U.S. war dead which he hopes to decorate with huge, gay, half-abstract ceramics of planes, ships and smiling young men with their helmets...
...leather scrolls which the Bedouins offered for sale looked interesting to the monks of the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem. A couple of goatherds had found eight of the scrolls, wrapped in cloth and hidden in urns, in a cave near the Dead Sea. The monks bought four scrolls* and last February Archbishop Mar Athanasius Yeshue Samuel brought them to the U.S. for study and identification...
...their wild state, says Moncrieff in the current issue of Discovery, moths did not eat wool. Their larvae ate dead animals on which the females deposited their small white eggs. But as soon as man started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never...