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...fact remains that there was not enough evidence for a conviction. Such a verdict would have been miscarriage of justice. That the body was never positively identified is due to the antiquated methods of the Mississippi police, which has never been noted for scientific medico-legal methods. What is surprising, however, is that the NAACP, which certainly knew that the body's identification would be the crucial issue, did not use some of its own resources to pin down the identification. It may have been, of course, that such was done, and that no positive evidence (dental records, X-rays...
Aircraft designers, forever increasing the capabilities of their planes, must constantly make expensive compromises to take care of the pilot. Until Medico Stapp came along with his cool scientist's insistence on using himself as guinea pig, fighter-planes were built to stand an expected stress of nine gs. It hardly seemed worth while to make them stronger. The human body, the engineers insisted (and most doctors believed), could not take greater physical strain. Not the machine but man himself appeared to be limiting man's conquest of the jet age. However the engineers tried, they could...
Last week Director Boone, 65 and ailing, prepared to step down after four years on the job. His hand-picked successor: Dr. William S. Middleton, 65, former dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School and military medico of long standing (he served on loan to the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in World War I, as colonel in the Army Medical Corps in Europe during World...
...plate in the course of a doubleheader with the New York Giants: five walloping home runs, a major-league record. ¶The World Champion New York Yankees, currently stumbling around in the second division of the American League, got an Army reinforcement. Lieut. Bobby Brown, 29, a front-line medico for nine months with the 45th Infantry Division in Korea, announced he was available for Yankee third-base duty until July 1, when he expects to quit baseball for full-time doctoring in the San Francisco Hospital. EURJ In New York, Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson, the two-fisted flailer who made...
...factory worker from Festus, Mo. (pop. 5,199) made medico-legal history last week by suing four cigarette manufacturers and a grocery chain for $250,000. Ira C. Lowe, 39, filed his suit in St. Louis blaming them for the cancer which caused him to lose a lung...