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From the sunbaked wastes of Arizona's Navajo Reservation came dramatic news about the new TB drug, isoniazid (TIME, March 3). The report was carefully evaluated in the gleaming tower of Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Then, last week, Cornell's Dr. Ralph Tompsett got up in London's cavernous, dingy Central Hall and passed the news to 400-odd experts gathered for a British Empire conference on TB. Sum of the findings: isoniazid is the only drug that belongs in the same class with streptomycin for effectiveness against tuberculosis. In most respects...
Hungry for the Bottle. The first Navajo to be treated with isoniazid was a seven-month-old baby girl named Patty. When her parents brought her to Dr. Charles M. Clark at Western Navajo Hospital in Tuba City, Patty was a wizened starveling of 9 lbs., with miliary TB. Her temperature was 103° and she had to be fed by tube. After 17 days of treatment with isoniazid, her temperature dropped to normal and she began taking the bottle hungrily. Now Patty weighs 16 lbs. and her TB seems to have been arrested...
...year-old Navajo girl named Jean Smith was Dr. Clark's next miliary case. She weighed 79 lbs., had an agonizing, rattling cough and had trouble breathing. Moreover, says Dr. Clark, the X ray of her lungs "looked like a snowstorm." Under treatment with isoniazid she soon got rid of her fever, cough and shortness of breath. Jean has eaten...
...Navajo (Hall Bartlett; Lippert) is a low-budget picture with the high-minded aim of giving moviegoers an insight into the problems of the modern Navajo Indian...
...drops its real problem in favor of artificial plot: the boy abruptly reconciles himself to white civilization in a finish that is psychologically and sociologically lame. Independently produced on a shoestring ($100,000) by 29-year-old Actor Hall Bartlett (who also appears in the picture as the schoolteacher), Navajo was filmed on the Navajo Indian Reservation in northern Arizona with a cast of unaffected amateurs headed by Francis Tee Keller, who is appealing as Little Son of the Hunter. For all its grandeur of setting, strikingly recorded in Virgil Miller's camera work of the Canyon of Death...