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...been aware that certain types of hypertension (high blood pressure) are connected with kidney disturbances. They have also observed that anger or other emotional storms may raise blood pressure. What the Trueta group demonstrated was the physiological chain of events that leads to hypertension. And they showed that the hitherto unexplained form of high blood pressure known as "essential hypertension," which accounts for 95% of all cases, stems from the kidneys...
...year ago last week the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tenn. began selling radioactive isotopes made in its uranium pile. Already, these atomic by-products have had important influences on U.S. science, and have made possible many hitherto impossible research jobs...
...democratic, it must be education. It does not follow that because the Common Man has been lifted into control, that he is automatically made competent to exert control. When the Common Man was thus suddenly liberated, what he needed . . . was such education as would enable him to understand what hitherto only the controlling few had been encouraged to try to understand, the nobler and wiser aims of the race, those visions which dictate the ethical foundations of a sound society...
...Thanks ... are due to TIME for reporting the uncovering of a hitherto unknown portrait of that interesting monarch, Henry VIII [TIME, June 30]. . . . TIME slipped, however, in stating that the English collector [Stannard] had "rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait." There is a quite authentic and well-known "Portrait of Henry VIII as a Child" [see cut) which antedates the portrait in question by some 15 years. The childhood portrait, made about 1494 by an unknown artist, has in recent years belonged to the collection of the Verney family at Rhianva, Anglesey, England. It shows that even...
...cardboard hatbox. For 25 years it gathered dust as Sir Arthur and his Sherlock Holmes gathered legend. Finally Sir Arthur's son, Adrian, went poking about and last week the secret was out. The hatbox, announced Adrian, contained unpublished writings by Sir Arthur, including The Crown Diamond, a "hitherto unknown" one-act play about Holmes, and a mysterious manuscript entitled Some Personalia About Mr. Sherlock Holmes. This "unique document," said Adrian cryptically, would "explode the old myths" about Sir Arthur and his great gumshoe...