Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 10 sides). Fritz Reiner's performance of this great work for Columbia (TIME, Jan. 3) may hold the edge in fire and power; but the fine work of the Concertgebouw, and the spaciousness and detail of Decca's recording, make this...
Scientists have long known that there is some electrical activity in the body, and that a change in the normal action may be a warning of disease. The knowledge has been used to diagnose ailments of the heart (by electrocardiograph) and of the brain (by electroencephalograph). Could the same principle be applied to cancer...
...shown to have no cancer by the test, only five were later found actually to have the disease. The Burr-Langman test cannot give the final word, say its inventors, but is an "adjunct" or helper test for other more complicated methods. It can be made in 25 minutes, may eventually prove useful in detecting cancer in other parts of the body...
...fact that cancer cells make a difference measurable in electricity may be a clue to the nature of cancer. A possible explanation lies not in the cancer cells themselves, but in the relation between cancer and normal cells. Cancer cells are "antisocial" or "immoral" and run wild in the body; the test may measure the resulting disturbance. It is possible, Drs. Burr and Langman speculated in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, that cancer is a defect "in the design of the organism." If later experiments prove this to be true, they reasoned, there would be no one cause...
...diseased thyroids and hunks of stomach. But Surgeon Ogilvie has what he regards as more effective treatment: proper doses of idleness, for "idleness is a part of function." A change of occupation is often a good thing, too. The mind that has been driven too hard may do its best work when tension is relaxed and it is allowed "to find the natural paths that shape themselves in idle periods." Ogilvie adds: "Science is advanced further in a shorter time by the informal chatter of a few like-minded friends over cocktails than by the formal exchange of a paper...