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...attacks the cervix (neck) of the womb may develop in women at any age from the late teens on. Because of both its greater frequency and its threat to women in their childbearing years, this type has received intensive study. The American Cancer Society's Epidemiologist E. Cuyler Hammond lists several social as well as medical factors that go with high cervical cancer rates...
...Hammond's statistical analyses show that uterine cancer deaths began to decline in the 1930s. This was before the Pap smear was in wide use, but after cancer campaigners had begun to stress the seven warning signals. The decline accelerated dramatically with wide use of the Pap smear...
...rheumy eyes of a bloodhound, the jowls of a St. Bernard and a baldachin of white hair like that of an extraordinarily unkempt poodle. His face, reporters joked, looked as if it had been slept in. When he spoke, there issued forth a sesquipedalian vocabulary, diapasonal sounds like a Hammond organ in dense fog. His performances had a consciously archaic quality about them. He satirized fustian while indulging in it. His senatorial solemnity was a species of burlesque. He belonged in a Chautauqua rather than a McLuhan age, although he became a master of television performing. His manner, leavened...
...HAMMOND E. CHAFFETZ Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters Chicago...
James Paul is, as ever, powerful, meticulous, and demanding of his orchestra. And the result is, as one has come to expect, a rendition of Sullivan's most exuberant score that splendidly complements Hammond's direction. The orchestra is slightly overbalanced towards strings and could, perhaps, have been a bit brassier; but the necessity to resort to criticism so minor only underscores the fact of an excellence that has become traditional...