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Another rich field for quackery is gadgets, and the FDA had a rogues' gallery of them from court cases it has recently won. The "Ortho-Structurometer," a posture adjuster, was falsely claimed to be effective for tuberculosis, asthma, heart conditions and ear-nose-throat infections. A San Francisco outfit got into space-age labeling with the "Oscilloclast," "Oscillotron," "Dipolaray" and "Depolatron." A Southern California chiropractor achieved the ultimate in low fidelity by distributing an endless-tape recording of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. The machine emitted no music, but the promoter claimed that vibrations, transmitted through electrodes, cured cancer...
...telephone rang. It was the President of the U.S., Franklin D. Roosevelt. Lewis passed the phone to his wife next to him, and for half an hour he had to listen while she straightened out the nation's affairs-with the wire across his throat...
...switching Tom Boone to left half, thrilled Crimson fans with a 93-yard touchdown return on the opening kickoff in the first inter-squad scrimmage Sept. 9. He showed a spark of brilliance that brought hope to the team. Then last week he sat out because of a strep throat. Monday, his slow recovery was attributed to mono. Updated reports said yesterday that he would probably not be ready until the Dartmouth game, the fifth contest...
...injuries, the Harvard lineup Saturday will see sophomore Bill Grana, 5' 11" 192 pounder from St. Louis, starting at fullback. Chuck Reed, switched from fullback to halfback recently, will probably start at right half with Tom Boone at left. Hank Hatch, who sat our last week with a strep throat, will be running second team behind Reed this week...
...have narrowed the presumed cause from smoking in general to cigarette smoking to heavy cigarette smoking. Meanwhile, statistics amplified the effects to include not merely lung cancer, but even more important (in number of deaths ), heart and circulatory diseases-plus other pulmonary diseases and cancers of the mouth and throat. With this much to go on, Hammond hypothesized that the amount of smoke to get into the lungs was a critical factor, and two years ago decided to include this in the Cancer Society's biggest survey yet (with questions on environment, heredity, diet and drinking habits...