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...treating cancer of the breast, thiotepa has proved to be a useful ally of surgery. Said Dr. Ravdin: "Twenty percent more women did not have their cancer reoccur" when the drug was used with surgery...
Anderson's book hovers, not altogether successfully, between being a novel about a small town and being a collection of short stories. The book leans toward unity only by having the same characters reoccur every now and then, by presenting most of the characters as similarly crucified by life, and by introducing most of the smaller characters through one person, George Willard, the sensitive young writer...
...went on to say that "it ought to give a great deal of reassurance to these raw-material producing nations," because a U.S. depression like the one in the thirties which brought financial chaos to such countries would not reoccur in the future...
Nobody is surprised to find Keenan Wynn amiable and funny, Lucille Ball tough and funny, and Esther Williams in a bathing suit in "Easy to Wed." Nor is it a jolt when ahs and ohs and girlish sighs accompany the first appearance of Van Johnson and reoccur at unpredictable moments throughout. The big surprise is that the story itself, far from being a B plot dressed up in technicolor, abounds in first-rate humour and develops with steady interest to the madcap climax...
Awareness of the necessity of planning for the future is emphasized by the fact that similar crises are liable to reoccur with rhythmic regularity. Modern civilization is founded on technology, which is essentially planned and scientific. A blue-print plan for the future would, then, bring our economic system into harmony with the technical efficiency which created it. No rule of thumb procedure is sufficient to bring the world back to a smoother running order...