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...Murray Leinster (real name: Will F. Jenkins), dean of U.S. science fictioneers, the formula has been badly overworked. He is tired of galactic worlds, space ships, bug-eyed monsters and the few thousand rabid fans who cry for them. Along with most book publishers, he would like to see "SF" go respectable, or at least sensible, keep one foot and preferably two on the ground-and even try for a slightly more polished prose...
Through the cooperation of dozens of doctors in the San Francisco Bay area, Dr. Gofman and his fellow workers have studied what they call "Sf 10-20 molecules" in the blood of 1,553 people. Most (900) were normal, but more than 600 suffered from heart, artery or kidney disease, high blood pressure or diabetes. Notable concentration of Sf 10-20 molecules were found in the blood of nearly all patients who had at some time had a heart attack (usually after a blood clot closes an artery supplying the heart muscle). This fact, said Dr. Gofman, was significant because...
...underactive thyroid, and in more than 90% of those with high blood pressure or coronary insufficiency. Perhaps even more significant for the future: more than half of the men and a third of the women with no known disease of the heart or arteries showed high levels of Sf 10-20 molecules. These people, Dr. Gofman suggested, may be those who, in time, will develop atherosclerosis...
...intelligent and a good shot." Lamented Rodney: "The inclusion of 'intelligent' was a subtle form of chauvinism ... I had thought of it as part of the reason why a player of only 5-4 could make a college team . . . Looking back . . . it is clear enough that the SF mentor was expressing ... so called white superiority over those with darker skins, [by implying] that there is something newsworthy in a Chinese-American being 'intelligent...
Winthrop--rf, Guren; 1b, Foster; p, Bixler; 2b, Ways; ss, Nichelson; 3b, Welsh; c, Wallace; cf, Williams; 1f, Ecob. Kirkland--c, Tanner; p, McGaffrey, Singer; 1b, Felton; 2b, Senay, Gull; 3b, Perry; ss, Winters; rf, Killam, Knight, Weary; cf, Cogan, Bluestone; lf, Flynn, Beck, Metzer; sf, Kingsburg...