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...there were deeper, more fatal defects. The Democrats' own board of directors was sadly divided. One split was the final revolt of the Southern conservatives against the New Dealers. Another came with the huffy retirement of such top-rank officers as Harold Ickes and Henry Wallace from the Cabinet...
...average man has about eleven pints of blood. Loss of more than a third usually causes profound shock, from which the body can seldom be revived even by transfusion. But at the Cleveland Clinic, two top-rank U.S. scientists have succeeded in reversing "irreversible" shock in revolutionary blood experiments on dogs...
Seldom had a top-rank businessman given business such a rawhiding. When Charles Luckman, 37-year-old president of Lever Bros. (Lux, Spry, Pepsodent), rose up in Chicago's Stevens Hotel last week to address the Super Market Institute, nearly every word...
Last week 4,000 top-rank U.S. scientists and medicos went to Massachusetts General to celebrate the centennial of Morton's and Warren's historic operation. After reverent visits to the famed Ether Dome, now a medical shrine, the scientists settled down, in a huge tent pitched outside the hospital, to a three-days' appraisal of the ether century. The consensus, as summed up by Dr. Henry Knowles Beecher, Massachusetts General's anesthetist in chief: Anesthesia "was perhaps man's greatest and most original discovery. . . . If, at a stroke, the world's poverty were...
Some doctors believe .that, of all the weapons against cancer now being forged, the most promising is atomic energy. A top-rank U.S. cancer specialist, Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads, director of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, summed up the reasons why, in a report to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission...