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...checkbooks and their readers, crime and mystery writers work at other professions. Britain's Don Rumbelow (The Complete Jack the Ripper) is a London bobby; Los Angeles Cop Joe Wambaugh only recently quit the force. In the tradition of Erie Stanley Gardner, many are lawyers, notably Harold Q. Masur (Bury Me Deep), Francis ("Mike") Nevins Jr. (Publish and Perish), Joe Hensley (A Killing in Gold), and, of course, Englishman Michael Gilbert, creator of the Patrick Petrella series and, be it noted, the author of Raymond Chandler's will. The remarkable P.D. James has a full-time...
...would be unfair to say that Sydelle Kramer and Jenny Masur, who edited this collection of ten oral histories of Jewish grandmothers, are cashing in on an idea whose time has come-especially since the distribution of the book has been limited and publicity modest. But they do take a certain polemical tone, consciously setting out to destroy what they perceive to be a sexist stereotype, proclaiming in their introduction that "the women of this book will . . . allow a public so long accustomed to hearing Portnoy's complaint the opportunity to read the whole story." While not attempting a scholarly...
...This wing," says the Clinical Center's Director Jack Masur, "will give our surgical investigators a new resource. It will give them information that they only guessed at before, or got only spasmodically-such things as systolic, diastolic and also venous blood pressure, blood temperature as well as body temperature, blood loss since the operation began." All the cables from the monitoring equipment that supplies such information are plugged into a junction box mounted in a pedestal at one end of the operating table.*From there, a cable in the floor carries the information to the central recording rooms...
Mumbling Masks. In older operating rooms, Dr. Masur notes, the surgeon had to rely on an assistant, or the anesthesiologist or a nurse, to mumble bits of information to him through a muffling mask. "Now he just glances up to an illuminated display board mounted high on the wall that continually flashes the physiological data from the recording room. The data are also stored, and doctors can study them later to see what went on from beginning to end, and therefore give better care to the next patient...
Also, two 24-year-old mathematicians will become assistant professors on July 1. They are Barry Masur, who does research in algebraic topology; and David B. Mumford, whose field is algebraic geometry...