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...hopeless a disease as most physicians believe. So wrote the Mayo Clinic's Surgeon Walter Alvarez in The Journal of Digestive Diseases last week. In reviewing "a remarkable study" of 10,980 cases of stomach cancer (compiled by Drs. Waltman Walters, Howard K. Gray, J. T. Priestley) which were treated at the Mayo Clinic from 1907 to 1938. Surgeon Alvarez pointed out that: 1) 24% of all patients who were operated upon recovered completely from the disease; 2) the percentage of cures rose to 60% for those who went under the knife early. If the cancer does not return...
...self-appointed brain trust of liberal intellectuals, calling themselves the 1941 Committee, handed out stinging criticism to the British Government, suggested a broad program of war and peace aims. Signed by Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Kingsley Martin, veteran editor of the liberal New Statesman, and J. B. Priestley, the "commentary" suggested that Britain must "win the peace" as well as the war, should start right away. Excerpts...
...cluster of gentle and disregardable nuts is the 1941 committee. Chairman Priestley, before the war a writer of folksy reveries like The Good Companions, has turned into a national oracle. No less than 40% of Britain's 14,000,000 radio listeners give him ear when he discusses each Sunday night the problems before the Empire...
...American Chemical Society's highest honor, the Priestley Medal, awarded triennially, was given to Thomas Midgley Jr. of Worthington, Ohio. After testing 15,000 compounds, Midgley discovered in 1922 that tetraethyl lead in gasoline permits higher compression, higher speed engines. Now vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp., he is credited with over 100 patents, including many for air-conditioning refrigerants. In wheel chair and stretcher, Midgley attended last week's meeting, for in September he was stricken with infantile paralysis. But like his close friend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he is conquering his handicap, still works hard as ever...
...come not only from isolationists (who hope the statement will be unsatisfactory) but from the Government itself, which wants to unite the public behind its policy of all-out aid to Britain. In Britain the case of the peace-aims advocates has been best stated by Author John Boynton Priestley, chairman of a Socialist-minded group which calls itself The 1941 Committee. Said...