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...Metal Hip When Air Force Veterinarian Harry A. Gorman was working for a master's degree at Ohio State University, he designed an all-metal device to replace the hip joint in injured dogs. One of the judges who passed on Colonel Gorman's work was Orthopedic Surgeon Judson Wilson. The artificial joint looked so good and worked so well in dogs that Dr. Wilson decided to try minor design changes that would make it suitable for human patients...
...Wilson will perform two more such operations, then wait six months to observe results before recommending wide adoption of the Gorman joint. But he has high hopes for it. Moving parts are metal against metal, lubricated by body fluids, so no foreign material is in moving contact with human tissue (which has caused trouble in some earlier plastic and metal restorations). Made of Stellite (a chromium-cobalt alloy), the joint should outlast the life of the recipient, with no corrosion...
...opened the doors of its six brand-new air-conditioned buildings to its first class of 170 students. Originally the idea of Mother Theresa, provincial superior of the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, the university was first planned as a small Roman Catholic college. But when Bishop Thomas Gorman began raising the necessary money, he found support enough for a more ambitious institution. Headed by Francis Brasted, 44, onetime director of the education department of the National Association of Manufacturers, the coeducational university not only provides the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a new liberal arts campus open...
David B. Abernethy, Francis X. Gorman, Peter B. Gustafson, John A. Hamilton, Jr., John S. Hammond III, Philip P. Holtz, William T. Murray, Eugene F. Proctor, David R. Raty, Richard H. Seaton (captain), James D. Stanley 2d, John N. Trainer III, Stepphen L. Wailes, Edgar S. Walsh, Kenneth W. Washburn, Arthur A. Windecker III, Theodore P. Burgess III (manager). Minor 'H' in major colors to Paul Levin '57 (associate manager...
Yale also won the freshman meet, 49 to 35. Bill Murray took the 200-yard individual medley for the Yardlings in 2:26.7, Frank Gorman copped the dive, and John Trainer, Gorman, Ed Walsh, and Dick Seaton fashioned a 3:46.8 to take the final relay...