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...prize for clinical medical research went to Dr. Inge G. Edler, chief of cardiology at University Hospital in Lund, Sweden, and Biophysicist C. Hellmuth Hertz of the Lund Institute of Technology. Their pioneering accomplishment: the application of ultrasonics to diagnosing abnormalities of the heart. Hailed by the Lasker jurors as perhaps the most important nonsurgical tool for heart diagnosis since the development of the electrocardiograph, the technique uses the familiar sonar echo principle: high-frequency (and inaudible) sound waves reflected from a target reveal its characteristics. Echocardiography can, for example, measure heart-muscle thickness, detect valve abnormalities and even show...
...knack for breaking race barriers without catering to either politics or sentimentalism. Last week, at their 176th General Assembly in Oklahoma City, the Presbyterians elected a qualified and articulate church statesman as moderator of the 3,291,998-member church for a one-year term. He is the Rev. Edler Hawkins, 55, a Negro...
...Presbyterian moderator's tasks are largely ceremonial, but Edler Hawkins (his life is an endless battle against people who spell his name "Elder") nonetheless becomes chief spokesman for a church that is 95% white in membership. A 1938 graduate of Union Theological Seminary, Hawkins has held only one ministry in his pastoral career, at St. Augustine's Church in a somewhat slum-ridden section of the lower Bronx in New York City. He started the church from scratch, with a congregation of nine; today it numbers 1,000, about one-third of them Puerto Ricans...
...unanimously voted to set up a commission on religion and race, with a first-year budget of $500,000. It will work with other denominations in stamping out segregation in churches, assist individual ministers in combatting prejudice among parishioners. The assembly's stand on race, exulted the Rev. Edler Hawkins, a Negro and pastor of St. Augustine's Church in The Bronx, is "tremendously significant. It gives the church the ability to move together for the first time...
Spicing his speech with a bit of secret history, Chancellor von Schleicher told a story on himself & Cabinet which made the Fatherland chuckle. Two of his ministers, he said, recently quarreled. Minister of Agriculture Baron Friedrich Edler von Braun insisted on retention of Germany's high agricultural tariffs, while Minister of Economics (Industry) Professor Dr. Hermann Warmbold demanded agricultural free trade...