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...Laurent's Under Secretary, Lester Pearson, had already done an able job as chairman of the U.N. Assembly's special committee on Palestine. Last week, U.N. delegates talked about giving him that job again. But Minister St. Laurent sidestepped. "Mike" Pearson was needed at home. Said the Toronto Globe & Mail, acidly: "If Mr. Pearson could readily be spared from Ottawa, he would not be the kind of man whose services are in demand for major U.N. undertakings...
Withdrawals. In Manhattan, C.P.A. Lester A. Pratt, a serious student, divulged* that: 1) there are 210 ways to crack a bank without gun or dynamite; 2) bank officials and the help get away with $2 to $6 million a year; 3) 65% soon get caught-if they keep on working the same bank...
...Lester Barlow of Stamford, Conn., an internationally known explosives inventor, advanced the idea yesterday that the objects were radio controlled flying missiles. Mather thought this solution doubtful...
Vagotomy, the most popular of all, is the vagus nerve operation for ulcers, developed by Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt (TIME, Aug. 26). Some 2,000 vagotomies have already been performed in the U.S.; Dr. Dragstedt is credited with 300. Properly done, the operation seems to be generally successful in stopping certain ulcers of the small intestine (Dr. Dragstedt does not recommend it for stomach ulcers...
Convention delegates showed plenty of interest in vagotomy, the nerve-cutting operation developed by Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt (TIME, Aug. 26), which is currently popular among ulcer specialists. But even that new hope was dampened by Dr. Russell S. Boles of the Philadelphia General Hospital. Said he: "While it is too soon to form conclusions about this operation, it is not too soon to . . . protest against . . . a mass experiment on human beings that is fraught with potentially serious and permanent disabilities." Dr. Boles's warning: the vagus operation, which partially paralyzes the stomach, may produce diarrhea...