Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington to plug for a $50 million-a-year international medical-research bill (see MEDICINE), spry Boston Heart Specialist Dr. Paul Dudley White, 72, enchanted a Senate committee with a stethoscopic tour of Biblical history. "Heart disease," he said, "probably killed Adam." "I thought original sin killed Adam, Doctor," murmured Alabama's Lister Hill. White: "I believe that heart disease is our fault and not 'God's will.' " But what about Eve? asked West Virginia's Jennings Randolph. "Eve escaped," said White, warming to the topic. "Ladies have a great advantage with respect to coronary...
...Hollywood to peddle his audience-research act to producers, Philadelphia-based Pollster Albert E. Sindlinger trotted out some tempting figures to convince the moviemen that they actually have something to sell. Feature films, said Sindlinger, will soon be classified by their expected box-office gross, and will fall into three groups: 1) under $2,000,000, 2) from $5,000,000 to $6,000,000, 3) from $9,000,000 up. Although the total number of movie theaters in the U.S. has dropped from 18,719 to 11,200 in the past two years, Sindlinger insisted that "blockbusters...
...goes another story, Comedian Danny Thomas went to him for help with a project to benefit leukemia victims; Manie plunged into the project without letting anyone know that he was dying of the disease himself. This week's TV show, which raised more than $200,000 for leukemia research and other work by the Emanuel Sacks medical foundation, was predictably sentimental, sincere and enthusiastic. Said Singer Tony Martin of Manie: "He's beginning to sound like the Albert Schweitzer of show business...
...shows up with surprising frequency among peoples as far removed as possible from the life patterns of Madison Avenue and La Salle Street. Other diseases present similar paradoxes. Last week, at hearings on a bill to set up a $50-million-a-year National Institute of International Medical Research, Senators heard Dr. Peter D. Comanduras of Medico, a voluntary aid group, cite these examples...
...direct mouth-to-mouth method of artificial respiration (TIME, April 21) won approval of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council as a standard for all first-aid efforts. Already adopted by the U.S. Army, and with prompt endorsement by the American Red Cross expected, it will probably replace the prone-pressure and back-pressure-arm-lift systems...