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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors of the prosecution and the doctors of the defense. These battles have tended to center on the very popular "insanity plea." There is no legal definition of insanity, and since each case is different, the psychiatrists cannot apply any hard and fast rules. The experts can only give their usually conflicting opinions, and the Court must come to final decision...
Students will have full care of their rooms in addition to an increased amount of waiting on table, pantry work, and bell duty. Maids will continue to take care of public rooms, bath rooms, and corridors. No girl will have to give up more than five hours per week toward the work program and the number of hours will probably run somewhat less in the larger halls...
...Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, cancer was detected in 74 out of 75 cases of women found by other tests to have cancer. Of 616 women shown to have no cancer by the test, only five were later found actually to have the disease. The Burr-Langman test cannot give the final word, say its inventors, but is an "adjunct" or helper test for other more complicated methods. It can be made in 25 minutes, may eventually prove useful in detecting cancer in other parts of the body...
Into President Truman's offices one day last week went his three-man Council of Economic Advisers, to give him their report on the U.S. economy. Tall, gaunt old Chairman Edwin G. Nourse adjusted his pince-nez, cleared his throat, and informed the President that the U.S. was still in "a healthy state of disinflation." It had not "fallen...
Schnabel will give two lectures on "Music--Its Function and Limitations" here early next December. He succeeds Howard Hanson, of the Eastman School of Music. Hanson took over the post after its establishment in 1948. Mrs. Bertha L. Elson donated the lecture series in honor of her husband, a Boston musician and critic...