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...Robert S. Schwab '26, associate professor of Neurology, served as a prosecution witness in the Ruby trial. He and two other neurologists were called in to interpret Ruby's electroencephalograms, or brainware diagrams...
...Schwab of Harvard University completed a study of 1,436 Parkinson's patients seen at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1875 and concluded that the great majority of current cases are the result of a baffling epidemic of encephalitis that swept around the world in 1915-25. The evidence is indirect, but the Harvard researchers make a persuasive case. Key links in their chain of evidence: EUR| For more than a century, Parkinson's was a rare disease; only 2 2 of the cases at "the General" occurred in the first 42 years studied, while 1,414 appeared...
...this form of encephalitis killed up to 30% of its victims and left others crippled by nerve damage resembling Parkinson's, most patients seemed to make a full recovery. And physicians suspect that, as in all such epidemics, there were many undetected cases. In these, Drs. Poskanzer and Schwab believe, de-layed-fuse damage to the nerve cells in the subthalamic region caused Parkinson's disease up to 40 or more years later...
Soon he was writing reviews for the Paris monthly, Cahiers du Cinéma, the Parisian equivalent of Schwab's Drugstore in Hollywood, a place where young hopefuls loiter. In the late '50s, every young French director who had directed nothing wrote for Cahiers. One by one, they emerged - Claude Chabrol with The Cousins, François Truffaut with The 400 Blows. Only Jean-Luc Godard seemed to stay behind, and one day he disappeared with the Cahiers' petty cash. Chabrol and Truffaut wondered if Godard was trying to finance a film. They came...
Mark Mullin of the Crimson ran a fine race to take third behind Bill Schwab of Brown. Mullin was in second position most of the way, but Schwab overhauled him in the last 300 yards. The only other varsity performer in the top ten was Ralph Perry, who came in ninth. Jed Fitzgerald, counted on to give Lowe a battle for first, finished a disappointing 13th...