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Fever Tension. NBC's March of Medicine (sponsored by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories and the American Medical Association) televised the removal of a tumor from a woman's breast. The camera was a straightforward reporter, blinking its impersonal eye at nothing. The sober absence of melodramatics intensified the drama of the operation. The TV audience knew that this was the real thing, taking place at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. Viewers were also told that if the tumor proved malignant, the operation would continue with the removal of the unidentified woman's breast...
...Rene Harding calls "a taper in a tornado." Author Lewis is likely to be lighting such tapers for some time to come. To be released this month are the radio adaptations of two new novels commissioned from him by the BBC. Though nearly blind as the result of a tumor involving the optic nerve, Lewis still manages to write, in large letters on sheets of white paper thumbtacked to a drawing board. His wife Anne types his manuscripts, reads him the newspapers (for several hours daily...
...Education section called "The Spinning Eyes" (TIME, Oct. 18), the story of Alan Maxwell Palmer, onetime advertising man, who lost a hand in World War II, went to Mexico City to live, and then found that he had permanently lost his sight after undergoing a series of brain tumor operations. During his lonely hours of boredom, Palmer conceived a project that he thought would help other blind people, particularly those among the uncounted thousands of illiterates all over Mexico...
...most modern, most ingeniously designed hospital in the U.S. is the University of Texas new M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston...
...five years, Alan Maxwell Palmer, 46, had known a fate that would have plunged most men into despair. A U.S. Navy veteran who lost one hand in World War II, he moved to Mexico in 1949 to shake off a series of mysterious headaches. There, surgeons removed a brain tumor and saved his life, but Palmer found him self blind. Though he earned a living by writing about Mexico for U.S. industrial magazines, he could not always escape the hours of empty boredom. "Friends," says he, "stop in to chat and read to you. But much of the time there...