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...Tennessee Eastman's James C. White: "Many Days...
...atom-jumpy as most of the rest of mankind, Dr. Chauncey G. Suits of General Electric last week jumped to a conclusion. When Dr. Suits heard that some mysterious radioactivity was affecting photographic film at an Eastman Kodak plant, he mused out loud. Eastman, he told newsmen, was probably getting a drizzle of uneasy isotopes from the atomic bombs exploded in New Mexico or Japan. He was later proved not quite right-but not quite wrong enough for comfort...
...announced Eastman, it had had a bit of radium trouble some time ago. A batch of film had been spoiled by packing it in cardboard made partly of waste paper from a factory using radium paint. Since then, the company had tested all packing materials for radioactivity. For a long time no trouble showed up. But recently, a shipment of strawboard proved to have 1,000 radioactive specks per sheet. The batch of strawboard had been discarded. The company preferred to say no more...
...basis of 35,188 obstetrical cases, Johns Hopkins' Dr. Nicholson Joseph Eastman concluded that spacing babies widely is no advantage to the babies or their mothers (TIME, May 22, 1944). His findings have now been amended somewhat by a man who has studied more figures-7,151,631 births...
Another statistician, Metropolitan Life Insurance's Paris R. Eastman (no kin to Nicholas J.), was sure which is the best month. Said he in last week's American Journal of Public Health: ". . . August babies have the best chance of surviving to their first birthday...