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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...layman"; by last month, 35-year-old Editor John Whiting had enrolled an impressive 531,000 readers in his correspondence course. But right from the start, Science Illustrated had been deep in the red. McGraw-Hill, which aims most of its soberly successful, specialized magazines at comparatively small markets, found it a tougher trick to sell Science Illustrated to mass-market advertisers. All told, staffers estimated that McGraw-Hill had dropped several million dollars on the experiment in science...
...referee raised the new champion's glove, someone yelled, "Where's Joe?" They found Joe Louis, figurehead director of boxing for boxing's new monopoly, the International Boxing Club.* Joe climbed into the ring to hand La Motta a gold championship belt (with a diamond, two sapphires and two rubies). "Nice going, Jake," said Joe. La Motta shed a few proud tears. When the receipts were counted, I.B.C. discovered it had lost $4,000 on its first major fight promotion...
...pattern. The recordings range from such chestnuts as Sheridan's Ride to the Book of Psalms. In the two years the program has been on the air, Grogan has turned down only one recording because he felt it might be over his audience's heads. He found a record of James Joyce reading a portion of Finnegans Wake "a little bit difficult...
...long ago, Memorial's doctors noticed that cancer patients, often reacted well after a serious operation, but died a few days later for no apparent reason. Sloan-Kettering's research men went to work to find an explanation, found that in such cases the patients had died because of a deficiency of potassium in the blood. When potassium was added in new cases, the patients picked up quickly and survived the operation. Dr. Rhoads believes that such improved surgery and treatment, combined with sufficiently early diagnosis, may save from cancer one-third to one-half of the people...
...cold, air-conditioned room in Sloan-Kettering, various molds (green or white mats) are growing in flasks. The program is still young, but already one mold has been found that secretes a substance with a slight differential effect on mouse tumors. Dr. Rhoads does not even want to talk about it yet. He has no "cancer penicillin...