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...Post-Mortem...
...Post Mortem. In Hamden, Conn., cops arrested Edward Bratkewitz, 21, for sending a hearse to his girl friend's house after she refused to mend their broken romance...
...seems to be looking in the wrong direction. The ferocity of Mongol hordes, commanded by a leering Orson Welles, is neatly foreshadowed in scenes of a barbaric tournament. But when they pillage and burn Chinese cities, the picture has nothing to show for it but some lines of post-mortem dialogue and a pillar of fiery smoke on the far horizon. An oily merchant announces that he is sending a caravan to Kublai Khan with rich gifts, including 81 beautiful women; Director Hathaway shows plenty of caravan, but he never brings on the dancing girls...
Doctors and technicians at Permanente made a searching post-mortem examination. This week, their conclusion was that some unknown protein factor in the boy's blood caused an explosive reaction in the father's kidneys and liver. Such a mischance, they said, could just as easily result from an ordinary injection or from any other treatment in which a foreign substance is introduced into the bloodstream...
...William Osier, who died 30 years ago. He was one of the first men to recognize leukemia and Hodgkin's disease as tumors rather than infections. He published the first successful diagnosis on a living patient of the disease now called coronary thrombosis, and made microscopic post-mortem sections of coronary arteries a full 25 years before the process was generally understood...