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Television, according to broadcasters, is intrinsically educational. It broadens young minds and uplifts old ones. Last week a plausible footnote to this plausible theory came from English Instructor Ralph S. Graber of Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College. TV may open all sorts of vistas, Graber reports, but the quality of its teaching is dubious. The effect on his students, he avers, is "a marked increase in the number of malapropisms and errors in diction...
...current Journal of Pediatrics, an outspoken young (33) Chicago dentist, Dr. Touro M. Graber, charges that early surgery often does more harm than good. Dr. Graber's basic argument: physicians generally have tended to ignore the fact that the upper and lower jaws do not grow at the same rate...
...Northwestern University's Cleft Lip and Palate Institute, Orthodontist Graber and other researchers emphasize that five-sixths of the upper jaw's growth is completed in the first five years of life, while the lower keeps on growing for another dozen years or more. When surgery is performed to close a cleft palate in an infant only one or two years old, Dr. Graber says, the growth of the upper jaw may be stunted, tooth buds are often destroyed, and normal growth of the lower jaw eventually produces a grotesque appearance...
...solution favored by Dr. Graber is to put off surgery* until the child is four or five years old. This need not mean that the child cannot learn to talk, or must learn wrong ways of talking. Dr. Graber holds: a plastic false palate can be fitted to close the cleft, and worn until the age when surgery becomes desirable...
Although there were M.D.s (including surgeons) on Northwestern's team, first comments by other surgeons on Dr. Graber's paper were sharply critical. Bad results from early operations, they argued, were uncommon, and happened because the surgeon was not as skillful as he should have been. Apparently it would take years-until many more children treated by Northwestern's method have reached jaw-growth maturity-for the results of the two systems to be compared, and the argument settled...