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...Smoking, already tied to lung cancer, picked up another morbid relation when Drs. Francis C. Lowell, William Franklin, Alan L. Michelson and Irving W. Schiller, all of Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, told a Boston meeting of the American Medical Association that they have discovered an association between smoking and obstructive pulmonary emphysema. In a study of 34 victims of emphysema- a swelling and rupture of the lung's tiny air sacs that can prove disabling or even fatal-the doctors discovered that 100% of the patients smoked, and that they smoked an average of twice as many "pack years" (packs...
They kept a firm hand on manners and morals: dancing, drinking, smoking were Baptist sins, and horse racing was almost as bad as horse stealing. When the Bible needed explaining, the Baptists were not afraid to do it by sheer lung power; when it needed defending against the eggheads of evolution they were ready to do that, too (six Baptists were on the Scopes trial jury). Neither priest nor church nor neighbor might come between a Baptist and his God. This could lead to a deep personal religion, and it could also produce a welter of small, off-beat sects...
Died. Paul Crouch, 52, on-again-off-again ex-Communist witness who got $9,675 for his two-year service as a Government-paid informer, then turned on Attorney General Herbert Brownell and his top deputy William Rogers when discrepancies were spotted in his testimony; of lung cancer; in San Francisco. Crouch in 1953 wrote a seven-page memo that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy used as the basis of his investigations of subversion in the Army...
Died. Jerry Ross (real name: Jerold Rosenberg), 29, composer-lyricist who with Richard Adler was Broadway's hottest new songwriting team (Pajama Game, Damn Yankees); of bronchiectasis, a lung ailment; in Manhattan. Since 1950 Ross and Adler, each contributing both words and music, have turned out more than 250 songs. Notable hits: Hernando's Hideaway; Whatever Lola Wants; Hey, There; Heart...
...free polio victims from dependence on the confining iron lung, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Frederick H. Van Bergen offers a respirator which breathes for the patient through a tube slipped into an incision in his windpipe. The size of a TV set, the gadget is easily wheeled around, plugs into ordinary house current, or if the power fails, can be cranked by hand-some patients can do it themselves...