Word: sinusitis
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...limited by invitation. Last week a handsome plum fell to Mrs. Laura Gardin Fraser, Manhattan sculptor famed for her medal designs, when her model won in a limited competition for a $100,000 Baltimore bronze of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson. Still groggy from a sinus operation, Mrs. Fraser was cheered by her success, knew she had a good two years' work ahead...
Died. Marilyn Miller, 37, musicomedienne (Sally, Sunny, Smiles); of hyperpyrexia (high fever) following sinus infection and osteomyelitis of the jaw; in Manhattan...
...Sinus. Dr. Charles Terrell Porter, Boston ear, nose and throat surgeon, presented an alarming picture of infected sinuses. They may, said he, cause no pain. Painless or painful, the infection from such sinuses drops into the throat, slips into the lungs and stomach, is responsible for many diseases of the chest, asthma, arthritis, various skin abnormalities, dull and irritable wits. In children from 6 to 15, chronic sinusitis often develops, occasionally infects the eyes, brain, skull, lungs...
Success in the pelvis led to Elliott treat-ment of other body orifices with other shapes of rubber bags. Dr. James Malcolm MacKellar, assistant chief surgeon of Englewood, N. J. Hospital, treats sinusitis that way. He inserts a rubber sack the diameter of a lead pencil through each nostril to the top side of the soft palate. Each tube contains a partition which allows a steady flow of hot water. Sinus pains speedily cease as the water circulates. With another kind of Elliott rubber bag, Drs. John Henry Morrissey and Leo L. Michel of Manhattan, and a thousand others...
...colitis but sinus is now the most fashionable physical complaint. Likewise Surrealism is the latest rash on the high brow of Art. Even experts are puzzled by its cockeyed symptoms, cannot give a straightforward diagnosis; while laymen, confronted by the nightmare inconsequence of such surrealist pictures as Salvador Dali's (TIME, Nov. 26), are amused, bewildered or alarmed. But surrealism has its uses. In I Am Your Brother Author Marlowe has made it work for him, shows through this feverish medium a story distorted into real horror. One reason why such gruesome tales as Dracula are still traditional...