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...human kidney is a filter capable of such fine chemical discrimination that no machine yet visualized can come near matching it. But with uncommon ingenuity and commonplace materials, researchers have produced an effective stand-in which does its most obvious and important jobs. Head and shoulders above other kidney makers is tall, tart Willem Johan Kolff, 48, of the Cleveland Clinic. Physician Kolff made his gadgeteering breakthrough in his native Netherlands during the Nazi occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Kidney Crises | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Alcohol angina is not uncommon, results when a patient gets high enough to become "involved in emotional events" that he would have the sense to avoid when sober. Also, alcohol is often prescribed to relieve angina (it is little good except as a sedative), and "enthusiasm for the treatment" may become so great that the doctor winds up treating alcoholism, not angina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Versatile Angina | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...when vigorous old (77) Cecil Blount DeMille died of a heart attack in Hollywood last week, the town that he had taught to operate on the grand scale buried him with uncommon dignity. Only a handful of mourners were at his grave. It was a modest exit for a showman whose 70 pictures have made more money* than any other movies ever filmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Epic-Maker | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...picture is clear. The Age of Holden Caul-field is upon us, the University of Chicago syndrome is slowly ossifying. At the citadel of veritas future Bronsons will be sacrificed to the glory of the Spike Sluggs and Moses Kelleys. The uncommon man-typical in his uniqueness--is taking over; the natives of Idyllia are being driven...

Author: By Secret AGENT X-, | Title: A Look Ahead | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Behind the colorless and hollow names of Hattie S., 58, Walter B., 42, and two-year-old Ellen "with auburn hair, greenish eyes, dimples and an impish smile" are shattered, hungry, confused, forsaken, and pained men, women, and infants. Their uncommon glory is to be the dregs of prosperity, the stagnant backwash of our land of freedom and liberty and forever free enterprise...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Comfort and Joy | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

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