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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general run of people still believe that the old family doctor has his points. And last week the No. 1 U.S. medical publishing house placed a sizable bet on the general practitioner's future: a five-volume, monumental compendium of modern medical knowledge (An Integrated Practice of Medicine, W. B. Saunders Co., $50). Its aim: to make the family doctor an up-to-date, "compleat practitioner...
Last week, a University of California researcher reported that he had discovered a new blood test for pregnancy. Dr. Ernest W. Page, an obstetrics professor, claimed that his new test had three important advantages: 1) it is faster; 2) it can determine the date of conception within a five-day margin of error, thus forecasting more accurately when the baby will be born; and 3) it provides a continuous check throughout pregnancy on whether the fetus is still alive...
...invention. It is as pure an expression of Yankee or backwoods genius as the coonskin cap and the basswood spittoon. The latest to work it over is Tennessee-born James R. Aswell, who has dug out about 100 items (including the above, by Tennessee's George W. Harris about 1845) from old books, newspapers and magazines...
...George W. Bagby on a concert by famed Pianist Anton Rubinstein: "Well, sir, he had the blamedest, biggest, catty-corneredest pianner you ever laid your eyes on-something like a distracted billiard table on three legs. . . . Played well? You bet he did. When he first sit down, he peered to care mighty little about playing, and wished he hadn't come. He tweedle-eedled a little on the treble, and twoodle-oodled some on the bass. . . . All of a sudden, old Ruby changed his tune. . . . He lit into them keys like a thousand of brick. He give...
...members are David W. Self '48, who will act as art director, and Gordon W. Hedin '46, who will head the circulation drive scheduled to begin later in the term...