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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors and technicians at Permanente made a searching post-mortem examination. This week, their conclusion was that some unknown protein factor in the boy's blood caused an explosive reaction in the father's kidneys and liver. Such a mischance, they said, could just as easily result from an ordinary injection or from any other treatment in which a foreign substance is introduced into the bloodstream...
...Hospital Research Foundation in Cincinnati followed it up. Last week Dr. Sabin told the Society of American Bacteriologists, meeting in Baltimore, that he had discovered the existence of a factor in human milk which seems to make the polio virus less active. The substance (its nature is still unknown) was found in all human milk samples taken within the first five days of milk flow after childbirth. It was found in three-fourths of the samples taken in the next eleven months...
When a newspaperman gets beaten up while on the job, his colleagues usually have a sympathetic word for him. But last week, in Hearst's New York Mirror, Columnist Walter Winchell cracked: "The attack on a newspaperman by 'unknown' assailants . . . reminds the wags of critic [Alexander] Woollcott-of whom it was quipped: 'If that guy's ever found murdered-half the population of N.Y. will be held under suspicion...
...Bump's special favorites is the sand grouse, which nests as much as 25 miles from water. It lives on desert seeds and commutes every day to the nearest waterhole. In some still unknown way it brings water back to its grounded young. Dr. Bump hopes that the sand grouse can colonize U.S. bird pastures that are too far from water for any U.S. game bird...
What locks the faults? There is astronomical evidence, says Dr. Benioff, that the earth's radius changes slightly, for an unknown reason. When its radius is smaller than normal, the faults may be locked tightly. When the earth swells up again, even a tiny bit, the faults may loosen enough to set off earthquakes...