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...many such patients there are." says Dr. Conn, "is anybody's guess." They run the gamut from those with strikingly severe symptoms to those detected only by chance chemical tests. And the picture is complicated because some victims of a rare, rapidly progressive and fatal form of high blood pressure develop an aldosterone excess apparently as an effect, rather than a cause, of their original disease. But whatever the statistics, the volunteers who pedaled themselves silly on Dr. Conn's exercise bicycles have a good deal to show for their sweat. At least 70% of aldosterone-tumor patients...
...unemployment check. But it better be about cripples of some kind. Its themes run the full gamut of human feeling-from misery to self-pity to despair. When these subtleties have been achieved, the song ought to be recorded by someone who sings no better than any other kid on the block, lest the record lose the "dumb sound" the industry values as a cinch to win rapport with the girls...
...studies abroad cover the whole gamut of diseases and the agents that transmit them to man. At Osaka University Dr. Hideo Kikkawa has painstakingly bred 30 different mutant strains of houseflies to find out how some of them become resistant to insecticides. By a statistical quirk, Norway turns out to be the best place to compare the effects of different psychiatric treatments, including tranquilizers. The Oslo government has been keeping a register of mental illness cases since 1916, and its records are the world's best for a homogeneous, stable population. Among U.S. immigrants, and their descendants, from Mediterranean...
...literary gamut is unlimited. He has written with equal facility on insurance, taxes, psychology, Novelist J. D. Salinger and the late Federal Judge Learned Hand, marriage and divorce, gag writers, capital punishment, Wall Street, greyhounds and, of course, horse racing. In partnership with a couple of friends, he owns, races and breeds thoroughbreds; one of them, a three-year-old filly named Nubile, won $18,000 in prize money last year...
...type of painting that many collectors thought good in Robinson's day was the storytelling picture that would run a sugary gamut from coy to mawkish. Robinson himself turned out a few canvases with titles such as A Canine Patient and A Rail Fence Flirtation, but he did not tolerate that kind of "potboiling" for long. He first went to France when he was only 24, and there he gradually fell under the spell of the new painters. Though the paintings of his good friend Monet made him "blue with envy." he took away only a fresh appreciation...