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Desiring a reliable standard of smoking habits, Dr. Marjorie Mills Porter and I queried people of both sexes and colors, and all ages above 20, in every tract of Columbus, Ohio, and then checked the findings against representative groups in Cincinnati. We are thus not guessing when we say that coronary victims of all ages are abnormally addicted to tobacco smoking...
...Gynecologist Louis Langman began to experiment with electrical tests for cancer. They had Yale Physicist Cecil T. Lane build a special microvoltmeter, which measures electrical potentials in microvolts (one-millionth of a volt). Last week, Researchers Burr and Langman announced preliminary results in diagnosing* cancer of the female genital tract...
...test, one electrode is placed against the abdomen, the other inserted into the vagina. If the patient has cancer in the genital tract (or is pregnant, or has certain nonmalignant tumors), the needle on the microvoltmeter dial swings to the left of the center line. If not, it swings toward the right. At Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, cancer was detected in 74 out of 75 cases of women found by other tests to have cancer. Of 616 women shown to have no cancer by the test, only five were later found actually to have the disease. The Burr-Langman...
...ruddy glow of November's victory, Democratic Chairman J. Howard McGrath waxed canonical over the worldly issue of spoils. The President, said he, would forgive "venial sins," e.g., little political lapses, and he would be hell on mortal sinners, e.g., Dixiecrats. The McGrath tract seemed quite clear: jobs for the faithful, the outer darkness for backsliders...
Like its Broadway original, and like most movies with a weighty message, Home pays a heavy price for treating human beings as if they were clearly defined symbols in a propaganda tract. Another weakness to be chalked up to Playwright Laurents: the arguments against discrimination get badly mixed up with the abracadabra of psychiatry...