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...built for medical purposes: a 6,000,000-volt unit, it generates electrons in a straight line, fires them at precious-metal targets to produce X-rays that can be focused sharply on cancers deep in the body. Of 74 patients treated, with a variety of tumors in the throat, lungs, prostate, kidney, bladder and brain, two-thirds now show no sign of disease, though no cures will be claimed for five years...
...outburst of whimsy, with gesture to match, veteran Comedian Charlie Chaplin, celebrating his 68th birthday at his Swiss chalet, piped: "When you're 68, you don't want to cut a birthday cake. You want to cut your throat!" Chaplin's devoted wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 31 and soon expecting her sixth child, laughed nervously as Chaplin displayed a frighteningly realistic flash of his old pantomimic genius, faintly tinged with...
...Violinist Isaac Stern bought 200, used two of them in Philadelphia to decorate Conductor Eugene Ormandy and Violinist Zino Francescatti. And last week a TIME reporter who interviewed famed Cellist Pablo Casals (see Music) wired from Puerto Rico: "[He] came out in a white sports shirt open at the throat, brown slacks and brown shoes. On the front of his shirt he had a campaign-type black-and-white button with a picture of Beethoven on it and the words, 'I Like Ludwig...
...October 1955 he began corresponding with Miss Marianne Moore, whose fragile images, often of animals, e.g., "A brass-green bird with grass-green throat," have won her the respect of the world and a quiverful of literary prizes for three long decades. Last week, in The New Yorker magazine, the Moore-Wallace letters were published for the first time...
...establishing such an arrangement, the HDC would help itself as well as the smaller organizations, and would help curtail the cut-throat competition that is now developing out of this polarization of productions...