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This sentimental hullabaloo was heavensent for a prizefight buildup, and Builder-Upper Jack Miley, sportswriter of the old school, made the most of it. On the night of the fight 55,000 fans crammed into Manhattan's Polo Grounds...
...first platoon had already gone through that mill. From the commanding officer, Major William M. Miley, down to the last private, they had made at least six jumps each (the lowest from 750 feet), will make many more, working their jumping altitude down to 300. This week, husky Major Miley was ready to go back to his outfit from the post hospital where he had been laid up with a fractured shoulder (from jumping with an 80-lb. load of equipment), hoped that he would have his whole outfit qualified as six-jumpers by spring. Trained to pack and maintain...
...noted Seattle obstetrician, began to try irradiation on hopeless streptococcic and staphylococcic bloodstream infections, with great success. Several years later, he was followed by Drs. Elmer William Rebbeck of Pittsburgh and Henry Alfred Barrett of Manhattan. Last year, after they told him of several thousand successful cases, Dr. George Miley of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital began to put in full time on irradiation, working up case histories, preparing careful fever charts, blood-count tables...
Last week, to the A. M. A. meeting in Manhattan, Mr. Knott took his latest model irradiating machine, an oblong box of stainless steel, about two feet long. All week long, young Dr. Miley, aided by his associate Dr. Alfred Tuttle, demonstrated the machine to thousands of curious doctors, showed them a sheaf of experimental records from Hahnemann. Of 27 irradiated cases of septicemia (bloodstream infection), said he, 22 recovered; 71 irradiated cases of other bloodstream infections, including peritonitis and septic abortion, all recovered...
Although irradiation combats a great many of the same infections as chemotherapy, it has none of the harmful aftereffects of sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine. "Irradiation," said Dr. Miley last week, "has never hurt a patient...