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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long been noted as physical characteristics of epileptics. Many epileptics also have small hearts and underdeveloped blood vessels. But until Drs. Temple Sedgwick Fay and Michael Scott of Philadelphia's Temple University began to study these "grotesque deviations" no physician had ever thought of correlating epileptic convulsions with general physical development. Last week, at the Chicago meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Drs. Fay and Scott reported a brilliant contribution to the baffling problem of epilepsy...
Several years ago, they had a hunch that the immature hearts and blood vessels of epileptics did not supply enough oxygen to their brains. Hence the convulsions. This theory fitted in with the general fact that many epileptics do not have any brain abnormalities which might be considered responsible for the seizures. To test their hunch, the doctors placed 14 epileptic children under the care of a coach, who helped them develop "athlete's heart" through a strenuous program of rowing, running, basketball, football. At the same time the patients were placed on the traditional low-water diet...
...Alden Park Corp., Philadelphia real-estate concern. His thesis: "The great majority of contemporary certified financial statements must necessarily be untrue and misleading due to the unsound principles upon which modern accounting methods are based." Some of his examples: A man invests $30,000 in 1,000 shares of General Motors at 30. The stock rises, he sells it at 60, and reinvests in 1,000 shares of International Harvester at 60. His twin puts $30,000 into International Harvester at 30, it rises to 60, and he keeps it. Each started with the same amount in cash, each ended...
Died. Dr. Alexander Lambert, 77, second son of a famed medical family; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 50 years as diagnostician, specialist on internal medicine and drug addiction, Dr. Lambert treated Theodore Roosevelt, Major General Leonard Wood, Samuel Gompers, many another notable. Of his eight pallbearers (all kin), four were doctors...
...exhibition of the so-called "International Style" (also the first of 68 exhibitions which the Museum has circulated out of Manhattan). In 1934 it attacked Housing with such vigorous exhibits as an actual tenement room, complete with cockroaches. The Museum's architectural notes and shows have in general packed more sting than any others, and the one positively new section of last week's exhibition was a survey of modern housing in Europe and the U. S. down to the last projects of the $800,000,000 U. S. Housing Authority. Cracked Curator John McAndrew, with the pictures...