Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wornout Horn. Germans and Austrians began to eye Americans with new respect, but the orchestra played through some hard months: Conductor Adler got his discharge; so did half of the orchestra at about the same time. It limped along, periodically hit by transfers and discharges...
...years and two conductors later, the symphony was in danger of collapse. It had played its repertory almost to death (the sound-effects man completely wore out his taxi horn on Gershwin's An American in Paris), and at some performances the concert hall all but emptied for good at intermission time. But the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos got the ear of General William M. Hoge, Commander...
...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 take...
...evidence taken alone proves a cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and these higher death rates, said Dr. Hammond. But, he went on, every bit of evidence so far available fits the hypothesis that it is a case of cause and effect. Sallying from their statistical sanctuary, Hammond and Horn went out on a limb: "It is our opinion that regular cigarette smoking causes an increase in death rates from [heart disease and cancer]. We now advance this as a positive theory...
...least, they had convinced themselves: as the evidence flowed in, both Hammond and Horn gave up cigarettes and took to pipes. Their boss, Dr. Charles Sherwood Cameron, medical and scientific director of the A.C.S., quit his pack a day and switched to cigars. To those who want to stop smoking, his advice was: make a clean break, with no attempt at tapering off-"The best way to stop is to stop." But, said Cameron, he did not consider the Hammond-Horne theory entirely proved (neither do they). He added: "Personally, I believe that a life of outward productiveness and inward...