Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advantages of NSA. What actually confronted students was a combination of the two, both under the auspices of the Council, and both phrased in such a way as to insinuate that there was but one choice. NSA is too worthy a project to receive such reckless and unpolitic treatment, especially when it involves crucial undergraduate support...
...Stoic" he did live long enough to polish it far beyond the raggedness of "The Bulwark." This superiority inheres in the book's construction. Cowperwood--his business and his philanderings--occupies the stage at all times; hence there is none of the diffusion of energy that mars the treatment of Solon Barnes and his splintering family in "The Bulwark." Until his death, Cowperwood carries the novel, and although his machinations with the control of the London "underground" approach fantasy, the weight of his personality inevitably overrides the reader's doubts. It is this same brutal personal force which stands Cowperwood...
...Orleans' Dr. Robert A. Katz, a diabetic himself, has been working hard for four years on a promising treatment for gangrene due to diabetic hardening of the arteries. He discovered that intravenous ether injections dramatically stopped pain and cleared up the gangrene (TIME, March 10). Ether, the doctor thinks, opens up the tightened blood vessels and thereby improves circulation...
Last week Dr. Katz, who is head of the department of metabolism at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, reported on his work at a Chicago meeting of the American Society for the Study of Arteriosclerosis. His hopeful news: in his extensive tests, the ether treatment worked; in 80% of the cases it saved patients' gangrenous legs from amputation. Boasted the doctor: "I've blazed a trail...
Television looked more & more promising. Some of last week's developments: ¶ The Theatre Guild got a well-pedicured toehold in the medium. The first of six Guild-NBC productions, a full-dress treatment of John Ferguson* was presented over NBC. Each play would require four weeks of production, unmentionable costs (mostly paid by NBC). Said Guildsman Lawrence Langner: "We want to communicate culture, not nonsense; to elevate television from the saloon to the living room...