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...View Hospital from 1931 to 1955, tried dozens of drugs for tuberculosis, finally in 1952 directed the testing of two newly-developed isoniazids on 92 seemingly hopeless patients, saved every one, a breakthrough that put the doctor out of a job when Sea View and other TB hospitals closed for lack of patients; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...SOCIAL BENEFITS. The program of medical care, old age pensions and other benefits now covers 5,260,000 people, an increase of some 500,000 in a single year. In the past five years, intensive public health campaigns throughout the country have slashed the polio and TB rates and almost entirely eradicated malaria...
...View of the Veins. Pereira decided to strike out on his own in architecture. He stalked new business as he had stalked Margaret. Hearing that a new TB sanatorium was to be built in Waukegan, he spent three months reading books on hospitals, talking to doctors, studying disease rates and nurse-patient ratios. His high-pressure expertise so snowed the selection committee that he won the job over many a more seasoned architect. Entering no fewer than 25 industrial-design competitions at Chicago's 1933 exposition, he won 22. When a Balaban & Katz movie theater offered to spend...
...Rodgers (RCA-Victor) presents 16 of Rodgers' good country songs, written and first recorded between 1928 and 1932, sung in Rodgers' reedy voice to his own guitar accompaniment. Rodgers died at 35, and to those who take his songs seriously, ballads such as Whippin' that Old TB have all the frustrating terror of a suicide note...
House-to-House. With the backing of state and local TB fighters, Toms River physicians and civic workers organized a campaign to get everyone in the community tine-tested. Not that Toms River has more TB than most other U.S. communities-it probably has less, thanks to uncrowded living conditions and abundant sea breezes-but the makeup of its population is a good cross section of the nation. And it has plenty of what Dr. Kandle calls the "win-it-now spirit," determination to wipe out old-fashioned TB completely before a new super strain of drug-defying bacilli...