Word: throughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down-to-earth is Playwright Howard's tale of an elderly Italian winegrower in the Napa Valley who courts a San Francisco waitress by mail, palming off his handsome young foreman's photograph as his own; of the girl's disillusionment on seeing him, her going through...
One of the agencies that helped pay the bill for Louisianians' fun was the National Youth Administration, which gave 525 L. S. U. students up to $25 a month. The man who handed out this dole was George C. Heidelberg, 60, supervisor of student employment, uncle of the owner...
High over the silver Hudson, in uptown Manhattan, stands a giant's village of towering, cream-brick buildings: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.* Most extraordinary of the hospitals in this doctors' Mecca is the 14-story Neurological Institute, erected ten years ago through the heroic efforts of late, great...
Within a year, Dr. Putnam hopes to use the magnificent resources of the Institute for large scale clinical work in 1) multiple sclerosis, a mysterious nerve-crippling disease, probably twice as prevalent as infantile paralysis; 2) paralysis agitans, a lingering, incurable shaking palsy; 3) epilepsy (known to modernists as "convulsions...
Brain Waves. Chief of the Institute's brain-wave station is young, German-born Dr. Paul Frederick Adam Hoefer, who came from Boston with Dr. Putnam. Close kin to a sensitive short-wave radio is the electroencephalograph. Tiny lead electrodes are pasted to the patient's scalp. From...