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...Author. Like his aspiring hero Harry Patterson, Clyde Brion Davis "has all his life been trying to unscrew the in-scrutable." Described as having "a vaccination scar on the left arm, a hand grenade scar on the back of the neck, a horse kick on the right shin, a mole on the left cheek," 42-year-old Author Davis has been a steamfitter's helper, chimney sweep, furnace repair man, electrician, detective, a knockabout journalist from Buffalo to Seattle. His hobbies include "spinning members of the W. C. T. U. and D. A. R. in revolving doors," giving fellow...
...sanely by men who are prepared to deal with student demonstrations, and whose job it is to "break 'em up." It was the idiotic, bludgeoning tactics of a few men, armed with weapons that they did not know how to use, that made a mountain out of a mole-hill...
...Enlargement of the primary mole with subsequent ulceration that may heal incompletely and weep or bleed intermittently. This may lead the patient to consult a physician, who excises the lesion with a good margin of healthy tissue. The wound heals and the patient may remain well for a number of years. . . . Subsequently, however, recurrence takes place. Following this there is a rapid downhill course with widespread distant metastases [secondary cancers in other parts of the body...
...First manifestation of malignancy is the occurrence of numerous pigmented growths in the skin about the primary mole. This represents the most malignant form. The onset is followed shortly by widespread metastases and death from visceral involvement...
Concluded Johns Hopkins' Dr. Affleck: "An important fact to note is that once a mole shows sufficient symptoms to cause a patient to consult a physician, it is already in an advanced stage and treatment, regardless of the type, rarely results in cure. The only hope for the present seems to lie in the removal of pigmented [moles] in their quiescent stage...