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...Today during the second hour, Dr. Art Ulene may demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver, which is intended to save a choking victim. Critic Gene Shalit may interview Actor Alec McCowen. Jane Pauley, Brokaw's sidekick, may talk to Actresses Valerie Harper and Esther Rolle...
...dinner partner suddenly begins choking on a piece of food, people generally shy away from sticking their fingers down the victim's throat to remove the obstruction. But that is not the best technique anyway. The most effective emergency treatment is one worked out by Dr. Henry Heimlich of The Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati and recently endorsed by both the American Medical Association and the American Red Cross. Standing in back of the victim, the rescuer reaches both arms around him, makes a fist and grasps it with the other hand. Then, placing the thumb side of that fist...
...editorial? At week's end the Barnard women had only their suspicions: the Columbia men. ¶In spite of a special faculty committee's recommendation to the contrary, the board of trustees at Rutgers University ordered two professors-Historian Moses I. Finley and Physicist Simon W. Heimlich-dismissed unless they answer the questions of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee as to whether they are or ever were members of the Communist Party. Said the trustees: "The refusal of a faculty member, on the grounds of possible selfincrimination, to answer [such] questions . . . impairs confidence in his fitness to teach...
Fans in Leipzig. At a cost of $300,000 per month (furnished by the U.S. military government), Heimlich runs RIAS with the help of a big staff that includes three other Americans and over 600 full and part-time German employees. There are a few spot commercials. "If it weren't for the blockade," says Heimlich, "we could get enough advertising to make this a paying proposition...
...best measure of RIAS's effect is the reaction of the Communists, who have made a sneering pun on Heimlich's name; they call him "Der unheimliche Mr. Heimlich [the uncanny Mr. Canny]." Periodically the Russians try to jam RIAS: habitually the Soviet press screams against it. But every week, more than 1,000 letters pour into RIAS from the Soviet zone. From Jena and Leipzig, Dresden and Potsdam, as well as Berlin, the letters urge RIAS "to keep up the fight...