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...George R. Stewart's 1941 novel, Storm, a young meteorologist named the low-pressure areas on his map after girls (the stormiest: Maria). The U.S. Weather Bureau has since tagged feminine names on hurricanes. This year, to avoid repeating the names of three memorable 1954 hurricanes (Carol, Edna and Hazel), the bureau decided on a new list of names...
Unspoken Word. In Cleveland, Deaf-Mute Mrs. Edna Hopton won a divorce from her deaf-mute husband after she convinced Common Pleas Judge B. D. Nicola that "nagging in the sign language can be just as effective as spoken words...
MINE THE HARVEST, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, consisted of 66 poems left by the passionate lyricist of the '20s when she died in 1950. No Greenwich Village candle burning at both ends here, but mature contemplation of man and nature and the sad imperfection of both...
...registered nurse and could not help noticing that the Nov. 22 picture showing the operation on Edna's heart seems to be taking place on the right-hand side of the body...
...entire body,* Dr. Artusio puts patients through all the usual sequence of anesthetics (barbiturates, thiopental sodium, nitrous oxide, oxygen, ether) until they lose consciousness. Then he gives more oxygen and less ether, so that they edge back across the threshold into consciousness, and holds them at this level. Edna's case, filmed in color by E. R. Squibb & Sons for hospitals and professional groups, was typical of 120 mitral valve repairs on which Drs. Glenn and Artusio have worked-enough, they feel, to establish that ether analgesia is just what the surgeon needs for many hard-pressed patients...