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...magical powers of ACTH (adrenocorticotrophic hormone) may be equaled among the checks & balances of the human body by the no less magical STH (somatotrophic hormone), it was suggested last week. Montreal's imaginative and original Dr. Hans Selye told a meeting of scientists in Lancaster, Pa. of preliminary evidence that STH increases resistance to bacterial invaders...
...STH is secreted by the front part of the pituitary, a pea-sized gland near the base of the brain. Like ACTH, it is a master hormone which seems to control some of the workings of the entire body. Just what these workings are, Dr. Selye does not yet know; he is trying to fit the reactions caused by STH into his vast and complex theory of the body's adaptation to conditions of stress (TIME, Oct. 9). But he thinks he is on the track...
...animals quickly lost weight and developed abscesses of the lungs, kidneys, liver and spleen. No new infection-causing organisms had been introduced; it was what Selye calls "spontaneous infection" by bacteria, present before the injection, which multiplied when the excess of ACTH reduced the animals' resistance. Injections of STH caused the animals to gain weight, brought on no bacterial disease. When STH and ACTH were injected together, the STH acted like a safety catch and prevented the ACTH from triggering an explosive infection...
...guerrillas, Mao years ago reminted some good advice originally coined by Sun Tzu, China's sth Century B.C. Clausewitz: "When the enemy advances, we retreat. When he escapes, we harass. When he retreats, we pursue. When he is tired, we attack." For comrades everywhere he wrote a military treatise, Strategic Problems (published in Yenan in 1941), that probably ranks as a classic on irregular warfare. Its precepts boldly give directions for destroying "an enemy 20 times our number...
...faced Newsman Fielder had moved on, was working on the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps as a private early in 1942, was soon commissioned and assigned to train officer candidates at Quantico, Va. Later, he was given command of a company of the sth Marine Division. Then the Marine Corps assigned Captain Fielder to perfect his Chinese at the University of California. When World War II ended, Fielder went back to his true calling, took a job as night city editor for the Associated Press in San Francisco, hoping that a chance would come...