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Thought there will be no celebration, tomorrow will mark an anniversary, Two years ago, with humming, crackling, and much publicity, Harvard's brand new cyclotron first went into action. This 125,000 volt particle pusher is the core of a new set of buildings on Oxford Street which comprises the Nuclear Laboratory...
...last five weeks, a cancer of the breast, one of the jawbone, and a case of malignant, blackish moles (melanotic sarcoma) have received the first experimental treatments with a 20-million volt electron beam. So far, the doctors will say nothing about results. But they are sufficiently encouraged to go on trying the raw electrons...
...months since the 26-million volt betatron was installed at the University of Illinois' College of Medicine in Chicago (TIME, Sept. 5, 1949), researchers have found it a valuable and promising weapon against some kinds of cancer. Twenty-three patients have been given a full course of treatments. Of these, reports the Illinois Division of the American Cancer Society, "a few are without evidence of the disease so far as can be ascertained...
...Forget. When she arrived for her first rehearsal, awed Met youngsters understood in an electric flash why Puccini and Richard Strauss lavished compliments and roles* on her. It was more than her million-volt personal magnetism. Said Conductor Tibor Kozma: "She works hard, with intensity. No monkey business. And she could give us all lessons in theater...
...provided an unnerving experience for Ernest Kolesiak of South Bend, Ind. Kolesiak was on the roof tightening guy wires on his antenna when it toppled across a 27,000-volt power line. Immediately, great balls of fire bounced up & down on the roof with thunderous explosions, the plumbing threw off sparks, and pipes melted around the kitchen sink. Mrs. Kolesiak, peeling potatoes, found her spectacles flecked with molten metal, the television set burned out and one of the knobs blew off, the telephone went dead, a glove lying in the yard burst into flames, and the house was scorched...