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...developed the first method of making the gall bladder visible to the X-ray machine. Thus, gall bladder diseases can generally be detected and diagnosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Another Laurel | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...what conclusions are likely on the subject of Communism. A senior at Yale did his classmates a grave injustice the other day by suggesting that they could not make up their own minds on this matter and should, therefore, be guided by their teachers. Nobody hereabouts would have the gall to suggest that to this class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Whom It May Concern: | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

After Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, 63, had a gall bladder and appendix operation in Cincinnati, his surgeon, Dr. Reed Shank, was startled by a long-distance call from Washington. Harry Truman was on the line saying: "He's a personal friend of mine and I wanted to hear directly from you how he's doing." Dr. Shank told the President that the patient's condition was "very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

Self-conscious teen-agers are sternly warned against trying the treatment on themselves. Said Dr. McEvitt: "It would be like somebody taking out his gall bladder at home. No one could possibly do it. It would be so terribly painful that he would have to stop in a few seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rough Stuff | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...first five minutes of last week's game it was nip & tuck. Then, when the score reached gall, Minneapolis spurted ahead. Two of its big guns-Mikan and Vern Mikkelsen-were seesawing the Trotters dizzy from a double pivot. At the half, Minneapolis was breezing along in front, 40-29. Although the Globetrotters put two and sometimes three men on Mikan, they could not stop the big fellow, and loose-jointed "Sweetwater" Clifton, the Trotters' pivotman center, fouled out trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Night of Reckoning | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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