Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last-minute added attraction staged by a performer who previously had been most unwilling to get into the act stole the show at the A.M.A. convention. The star: the American Cancer Society's Statistician Edward Cuyler Hammond. His show-stopping material: figures proving that heavy cigarette smokers die younger than non-smokers-mainly from heart disease and cancer, notably cancer of the lung...
...Science) Hammond, Yale professor of biostatistics, was little moved when Drs. Evarts Graham and Ernest Wynder reported their conclusion that long-term cigarette smoking can cause lung cancer (TIME, March 7, 1949 et seq.). Nothing proved, he said shortly, and went on smoking cigarettes. So did his assistant, Dr. Daniel Horn. But all the while Hammond and Horn were gathering deadly data. They had taken careful smoking histories of 187,766 white men, aged 50 to 69, in 394 counties in nine states, and were keeping track of them to see what killed them. Hammond and Horn figured it would...
...Mason Hammond '25, Master of Kirkland, said he will not extend the deadline past 8 p.m. because "I am very much opposed to competition among the Houses as to who has the most liberal parietal rules, so I shall keep the most conservative rule...
Maynard M. Canfield of New York City; Dwight F. Davis 3d of Southampton, N. Y.; Douglas S, Gardner of Hamden, Conn.; James R. Hammond Jr. of Marblehead, Mass.; Benjamin H. Hechscher (Capt.) of Devon, Pa.; Henry C. Holmes of Hampton, Conn.; John W. Lonsdale Jr. of New York City; Grayson M. Murphy 3d of New York City; Charlton MacVeagh Jr. of Webster Groves, Mo.; Anthony M. Ostheimer of Whitford, Pa.; Henry C. Place of Rosemont, Pa.; Robert P. Goold (Mgr.) of Ventura, Calif...
...Master Hammond does not cultivate the acquaintance of his House members as actively as perhaps might be desired; but weekly teas and dinners provide upperclassmen with sufficient opportunity to meet the Hammonds. Most members feel Senior Tutor Ayers Brinser maintains too exclusively a formal, official, disciplinary relationship with them...