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These are some of the occupational hazards of our trade, and we expect them. The head of our Boston office, however, seems to have more than his share of them. Recently, in the course of a week's work, he submitted to a sampling of twelve-year-old cheese, tasted a "health" beverage (turnip juice, elderberries and soybeans) brought in by an elderly artist, promised to try a new kind of bread made from orange peelings by a Russian inventor. Says he: "There is a distinct gastronomic hazard in this work. But I know of no other...
...operating-table hazard that surgeons dread most is persistent bleeding. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported successful experiments with a magical new substance which stops bleeding almost quicker than a surgeon can say hemorrhagiparous (hemorrhage-causing). The substance: gelatin sponge...
Penalties for murder and rape in Soviet Russia rarely exceed ten years' imprisonment, because personal crimes are considered there as mere "hangovers from a bourgeois past," John Hazard, professor of Law at Columbia University's Russian Institute and U. S. Government adviser, declared yesterday at the Law School Forum in Langdell Court...
Real crimes in Russia are crimes against the state, Hazard said. Where murderers are regarded as curable, men convicted of crimes against the state are considered incurable...
...Hazard, who was graduated from the Law School here in 1934, was an advisor to Justice Jackson at the Nuremburg trials and served as a guide to Henry Wallace on an outing to Siberia...