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...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...
...McCarthy tried to horn in on the act, but the G.O.P. chose as its spokesman to answer Adlai Stevenson's Miami attack...
...date, the President was informed that it was June 17. He turned to three Menominees witnessing the ceremony and asked if it wasn't on June 17, 1876, that "you fellows beat General Custer." The President was wrong. Custer's last stand at the Little Big Horn was on June 25, 1876; his adversaries were the Sioux. The three Indians, nervously eying the President's still-poised pen, hurriedly denied all connection with the massacre...