Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Conductor Halasz, a slightly grey 42, faced his toughest test: Mozart's masterpiece, Don Giovanni. He had once helped Bruno Walter produce it in Salzburg, and had put it on himself in St. Louis. "Always before it is considered first of all music, second music, third music," he said. "Now, first of all, we try to make it a play...
...patients are operated on (the hospital's "fiveyear cure" rate for stomach cancer: 25%). But Memorial is also pioneering in hormones for breast and prostate cancers, radioactive iodine for thyroid cancers, nitrogen mustards for Hodgkin's disease, radioactive phosphorus for certain forms of leukemia, a urine test for early cancer detection, studies of an extract of the adrenal gland, which looks like a hopeful candidate against stomach cancer...
...outcome of the Yale game will decide the success of the year, regardless of intervening victories and defeats. The Varsity, however, will not necessarily find its most difficult future test in the Elis, considering the game coming up Saturday. In winning its opener from Rutgers 40 to 28, Columbia was forced to play one of its best games this fall...
...going so smoothly. The Taft-Hartley Act, in a section aimed directly at Petrillo, banned payment of record royalties to a union. The Lea Act, enacted to prevent Petrillo's "coercing" of broadcasting studios (forcing them, among other things, to hire stand-by musicians), had passed its first test in the Supreme Court. Last week in Chicago, a charge of violating the act was filed against Caesar; if convicted, he could be sent to jail for a year...
Stanley and his group discovered that a virus can be "inactivated" (apparently killed) by chemical processes. By a reversal of the process, the dead virus can be brought back to "life." This is the closest that man has yet come to touching off life in a test tube...