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BRIGHTEST star among the bright young architects of the 1930s was a dour-looking, dynamic Finn named Alvar Aalto. His TB sanatorium at Paimio, Finland, with its cantilevered decks, was a landmark in the new international style. Almost singlehanded he had made wood a "modern material," used it in a dazzling variety of ways-an undulating ceiling for a library in Viipuri, an undulating wall for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair-and the tastemakers of the era all sat in Aalto's curved plywood chairs. But as the glass-and-steel revolution...
...Promise of Spring. Another in the top flight is tall, slender Hideo Hagiwara, 46, who worked as an army coolie during the war, began making wood blocks in 1953 when, hospitalized with TB, he was forbidden to paint in oils because they were too messy. Noted for soft tones, gentle composition, he describes his Snow: "It is melting snow with the promise of spring, and growing hope...
...involved Eftihia Christos, a 39-year-old Greek Cypriot who came to Britain 20 years ago. In 1953, after her husband died of tuberculosis, Eftihia got an allowance from the National Assistance Board, but it was too meager to support her four children, three of whom also suffered from TB. And so, in order to buy eggs and milk for them, Eftihia Christos began working far into each night, sewing hooks and eyes on dresses. Because she failed to report her extra ?2 to ?3 weekly earnings to the National Assistance Board, as required, Magistrate Geoffrey Rose, 69, sentenced Widow...
...Middlebrook and Dr. Maurice Cohn put more than 1,000 guinea pigs into chambers rigged so that the ventilators blew in BCG-Bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, a strain of weakened microbes used in vaccination against tuberculosis (TIME, Sept. 23, 1957). Later exposed to virulent TB germs, these animals resisted disease and lived out their normal life span. Those in an untreated comparison group sickened and died. Follow-up tests by Dr. Sol Roy Rosenthal at the University of Illinois showed that BCG, wafted in 10 million times its own volume of air, "took" in 27 of 30 children...
...apparent effectiveness is confirmed, airborne vaccination will have a cost advantage over multiple BCG punctures in the arm, because it requires far less vaccine. And Dr. Middlebrook believes that his method will interfere less with the standard tuberculin skin test for TB infection. Obscured results in this test have been a major factor in U.S. opposition to wide use of BCG, though the N.T.A. convention heard from Northwestern University's Dr. Guy Youmans last week about a cheap, simple blood test which may reinforce and partly replace the tuberculin test. Most important to Dr. Middlebrook is the simplicity...