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Compare the Cow. Other states have recently faced the same problem as Alabama, and have gone far toward defeating it. Pennsylvania, rich, but with many pesthole slums, cut its lung-tuberculosis death rate from 37 per 100,000 in 1945 to 16 in 1952. Though this was the period when streptomycin worked its greatest wonders, Pennsylvania laid the basis for continuing betterment. More unsuspected cases are being found through mass X-ray programs, and 36 centers for surgical treatment have been set up. Vaccination with BCG is being tested. However, Pennsylvania still needs nearly twice as many beds...
...Popular Science Monthly, which in the past has taught readers "how to" do everything from making a diving lung to training a seal, ran a 3-D section on how to run a buzz saw, deliberately left out the 3-D glasses but provided instructions on three ways to make a pair. One way: "Dissolve an envelope of unflavored dessert gelatin in 3 oz. warm water. Heat in double boiler until dissolved. Add seven drops of food dye to a teaspoonful, and pour carefully onto enameled jar lid. Let harden 24 hours before peeling off ... Cut out two frames...
While helping man a machine gun on Guadalcanal in January 1943, he got his first wound: two slivers of Japanese shrapnel ripped into his back and lodged in his left lung. Considering that a "scratch," he stayed up front with his platoon; but malaria finally laid him low. In the spring of 1945 he was back in action. He was wounded in the arm and leg by grenade fragments, in the face and in the hip by shrapnel, then in the face again by a sniper's bullet...
Died. Fred Darling, 69, one of Britain's greatest racehorse trainers, whose Beckhampton stables produced eight Epsom Derby winners, including this year's Pinza (TIME, June 15); of a lung hemorrhage; in Beckhampton, England...
...Another, also with underactive adrenals, was about to have a small segment of a lung removed. Fellow patients kidded him into believing that he was going to lose the whole lung. His undue fear sent his adrenal output up. And this helped him through the operation in good shape...