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...From Captain Charles B. Boycott, a ruthless and grasping land agent of County Mayo who was humbled by the first "boycott" organized by the Irish National Land League...
...Federal disease detectives joined state and local health officials in the search for the cause of a mysterious epidemic of pneumonia (75 cases so far) that has swept through Austin. Minn. (pop. 23,000) and lapped at nearby Rochester (pop. 30,000), home of the famed Mayo Clinic. The pneumonia has been unusually severe: delirious patients have had to be restrained; three elderly victims, previously in poor health, have died. So far, none of the microbes known to cause pneumonia have been identified...
...many outwardly respectable American homes may, more or less inadvertently, "seduce" children into becoming sexual deviates. The two psychiatrists, who published their theory in the A.M.A. Journal: Dr. Adelaide M. Johnson, 52, professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. David B. Robinson, 33, of the Mayo Clinic. They put the blame for deviations squarely and almost exclusively on the parents-who in turn must have been warped by their own parents...
...Actor Alan Ladd is able to deliver almost nothing but corn. For a moment now and then the wide screen opens on the blond infinities of Kansas grassland, but then it quickly narrows focus to the usual picayune plot: hero in trouble, villain (Anthony Caruso) in black, redhead (Virginia Mayo) in stays, weakling (Edmond O'Brien) in his cups. Then come the cattle drive, the big stampede, the solemn walk through the swinging doors, the bang-bang-bang that puts the audience out of its misery. Somewhere along the line this picture even manages to ring in a Swede...
...bundle (which can later prove fatal), the quiescent organ can give no signal of distress until the heart is sewed up and filled with blood-and by that time it may be too late to undo the damage. In recent months several noted surgeons, including Blalock, Dodrill and the Mayo Clinic's John Webster Kirklin, have decided that the advantages of stopping the heart outweigh the risks...