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Correcting a Curve. In the last nine years, Dr. Lucius D. Hill of Seattle's Mason Clinic has succeeded in correcting reflux in all but three of a total of 254 patients, and in only one case was there a recurrence of the hernia sufficient to allow the stomach to slide up. Hill's technique, which is now being adopted by many other surgeons, involves a more elaborate procedure: stitching part of the stomach to form an internal flap that prevents reflux. Ligaments and other tissues are attached where the gullet joins the stomach, so that this junction...
Died. John Mason Brown, 68, journalist, drama critic and lecturer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of a Louisville, Ky., lawyer, Brown was labeled the "Confederate Aristotle" for his self-deprecating wit and tongue-in-cheek pedantry. He was drama critic for the New York Evening Post from 1929 until 1941; after that, his Saturday Review column, "Seeing Things," became a forum for broad commentary. But the theater was always his passion, and in 1963 he quit the Pulitzer jury when the prize was not awarded to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...song to her husband, a convicted draft resister, with the preface: "He is going to prison for three years. The reason is that he resisted selective service and the draft and militarism in general." The second sentence was cut. Also deleted were such soporific bits as Comic Jackie Mason's gag about children playing doctor. There really must be something to the game, Mason said, because "Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if he wanted to become...
MARY JANE MASON Yonkers...
...opening rounds Nayar defeated Mason Gerhart of Penn and Brown's Greg Gonzales to enter the semifinals against Spencer Burke. Penn's first man. The Crimson star had to play under extreme pressure after Burke won the first two games...