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...middle-aged woman walked into the pine-paneled Philadelphia office of Internist Samuel Lowenberg last week and announced firmly: "I have high blood pressure, and I just read about that new drug, and I want to try it." This sort of thing was happening in doctors' offices all over the U.S. Patients who could not get their tongues around the hexasyllabic name of hexamethonium demanded the new drug, and no argument...
Like most doctors in the same spot, Dr. Lowenberg gave his patient the argument but not the drug. Carefully he explained that high blood pressure is not in itself a disease; it is a symptom of an underlying disorder. Unfortunately, in at least 75% of cases, the root cause is unknown. This cause may be a killer, or patients may live for years and die of some disease which has nothing to do with the state of their blood vessels. Because doctors know that emotional strain is often a big factor in the life of such a patient, they...
Johann Strauss: Album of Rediscovered Music (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 6 sides). Poking about the collection of Straussiana that the late Railroad Tycoon Paul Lowenberg left to the Library of Congress (TIME, Aug. 7), Columbia researchers last spring dug up five lost dances by Vienna's Waltz King. Well uncorked by Conductor Barlow, they are up to Strauss's champagne standard...
...best Straussiana-the original sheet music of his waltzes-Vienna did not get. For years a rich Viennese railroad man, Paul Lowenberg, collected scores not only of Johann Strauss but of other 19th-Century waltz-men-Strauss's father Johann, his father's teacher and rival Joseph Lanner, his brothers Joseph and Eduard Strauss. Collector Lowenberg acquired 1,644 pieces of music. His family, on their uppers just after Anschluss, looked for a purchaser for the collection, found one in the U. S. Library of Congress. According to Dr. Karol Liszniewski, Cincinnati musician who arranged the deal...
...corps of collectors. These men, with their districts, are as follows: W. L. West '32, Lowell House; George Wightman '34, Winthrop; J. M. Davis, Jr. '32, Eliot House; B. E. Estes '32, Kirkland House; L. O. Paul '32, Dunster House; R. H. Hunt '32, Adams House; J. A. Lowenberg '32, Leverett House; F. DeW. Bolman '35, the Yard...