Word: skeltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editor who took over for last week's issue, chubby, 49-year-old Robert L. Skelton, was in no hurry to tamper with the magic formula devised half a century ago by an insatiably curious young barrister-journalist named George Allardice Riddell. In the British police courts, Riddell found an inexhaustible treasure of news; he set his reporters to mining it. Unlike American scandal sheets, the News of the World has no "sob sister" interviews with murderers and mistresses; the paper never tries to tell a story before it is told in court, because of Britain's strict...
News of the World's new Editor Skelton, no scandalmonger, is a veteran of two years on Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, and 14 years as top editor of London's conservative, dignified Daily Telegraph...
...Evan Shute did not forget it. Last summer, when a colleague asked him to suggest a research project for a bright young medical student, Floyd Skelton, Shute suggested tests for the effectiveness of vitamin E against hemorrhage. At the University of Western Ontario Skelton set to work on his class-free Saturday afternoons, with a modest grant of $150 and laboratory privileges from his alma mater. He soon discovered that dogs given stiff jolts of vitamin E would not have hemorrhages...
Impressed, Dr. Shute decided to try the experiment on humans, using Skelton's principle of large, concentrated doses of the vitamin. A friend, Dr. Arthur Berge Francis Vogelsang, had just the man: a 68-year-old pensioner who was dying of hypertensive heart disease and hemorrhages, was due to have his spleen removed the next day. The attending surgeon was willing to try the vitamin, since he was afraid the patient would die on the operating table. Within a week after treatment the old man was out of bed, bustling around the hospital ward and helping nurses with...
Muscle Repair. Last week, in two papers read in St. Thomas, Ont. before the St. Thomas and East Elgin Medical Society, Dr. Vogelsang made the first public announcement of the new treatment. With his coauthors, Drs. Evan and Wilfred Shute, he gave full credit to Floyd Skelton for "crowning the research with final success...