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Several Adams House residents were rushing yesterday to the Hygiene Building in a minor panic asking for gamma globulin inoculations, it was learned last night. The sudden rush for the wonder drug is due to mild contraction of hepatitis by an Adams House senior...
...later had to be retracted, since everyone knew it wasn't the Temple Street George and Harry's at all. It was on a Saturday that notice of the Fraternity elections appeared, omitting Webb Wilson, Jr. '57, much to the dismay of Mr. Wilson's friends and of Phi Gamma Delta, which had elected him. Such injustice had to be corrected in a special notice a few days later. And, of course, it was on a particularly memorable Saturday last November on which the News predicted Yale would beat Harvard in football...
...Tufts Medical School and Dr. Robert D. Lange report in Blood, The Journal of Hematology on leukemia (blood cancer) among Japanese atom-bomb survivors. Most people near the centers of explosion at Hiroshima and Nagasaki died of heat or blast. Some survived these effects, but got heavy doses of gamma rays and neutrons. In Hiroshima, 750 people who had been within 1,000 meters (3,300 ft.) recovered from their radiation sickness and remained apparently well for years. Then an unusual number of them showed symptoms of leukemia. So far, 14 of the 750 have developed the fatal disease. This...
...bomb's three threats to human life (heat, blast and gamma rays), the heat radiation reaches farthest with full killing effect. Its rays, however, cannot penetrate opaque substances. The Chemical Corps has proved by experiments in Nevada that dense carbon smoke screens off most of the heat. Such smoke can be generated in enormous quantities by burning coal or oil improperly in industrial furnaces. So when the warning comes, General Creasy suggests, smoking chimneys should draw a black blanket over the target city. Gamma rays, of course, will pass through smoke as if it were not there...
...given a preliminary tryout in Florida with good results. Then last year an entomological task force invaded the Dutch island of Curacao in the Carribbean, where screw worms were strongly in possession. Supplied by air with male flies raised in Florida (on blood and horse meat) and sterilized by gamma rays from Cobalt 60, the experimenters released them on the island at the rate of 400 males a week for each square mile...