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...remarkable new type of childbirth anesthetic was reported last week in the American Journal of Surgery by Drs. Waldo Edwards and Robert Hingson, who developed it at the U.S. Marine Hospital (where wives of Coast Guardsmen have their babies) on Staten Island, N.Y. The anesthetic is continuous and localized in the pelvic region. A silver needle is inserted into the caudal area, just below the spinal column, where it remains throughout labor. The needle is connected with a flask of the anesthetic, two-thirds of an ounce of which is administered every 30 or 40 minutes. Longest labor during which...
...Expelled a U.S. citizen, Lecturer Waldo Frank, for saying in an open farewell letter that Argentina's foreign policy "secretly humiliates and offends Argentines." Twenty-four hours later, six pluguglies representing themselves as "investigating agents" entered Lecturer Frank's apartment and, with fists and revolver butt, beat him within two inches of his life...
...Edward Waldo Forbes: A devoted son of Harvard whose foresight and generosity will be long remembered...
Doctor of Arts. Citation: "Edward Waldo Forbes and Paul Josph Sachs: The builders of our Museum of Art, a national centre for scholars and curators; together they have labored for twenty-seven years, together we honor them today...
...nominal head of The Fogg, but it is the staff of 92 which makes the intricate and highly specialized plant run. Keystones in the entire hierarchy are Director Edward W. Forbes and Associate Director Sachs. Forbes, a grandson of Emerson from whom he takes his middle name, Waldo, has headed the Fogg staff since 1909, when the galleries were housed in the Old Museum now known as Hunt Hall. In 1915 Sachs joined him and the two opened an era of expansion in plant, collections, and funds...