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...pulp writer worth his salt knows that when his locale is darkest Africa he can't use too many drums. In a good standard plot, talking drums warn fierce natives of the unsuspecting white man's approach while the reader shudders. Last week in Natural History Dr. Albert Irwin Good, who understands Bulu and related African dialects, published the first popular article on the linguistics of drums, the complicated telegraphy whereby African drummers talk across the jungle...
...General Electric Co. last week proposed the use of the thousands of miles of U.S. high-tension electric power lines in civilian defense. The network could be used for large-scale air-raid warnings, could control colored lights to warn air-raid wardens, start pumps at pumping stations in case of fires, operate traffic signals, give telephone service in remote areas where telephone lines do not reach and cannot now be built...
...researchers conclude that in the case of the five paralyzed children the tonsil operation was "the precipitating factor," warn doctors and parents that tonsil operations are dangerous during the poliomyelitis season (summer and fall), even though the disease "is not notably prevalent in a community." Probable connection between tonsillectomies and poliomyelitis: nerves injured by surgery are more susceptible to polio infection, so that the latent virus could travel readily from the injured throat nerves to the medulla oblongata, where the spinal cord enters the brain...
Even so, Dr. Elliott Joslin of Harvard, probably the No. 1 U.S. diabetes expert, and Statistician Louis Dublin of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. warn that the rise in diabetic death is real. For insulin neither cures nor prevents diabetes. It has saved the lives of most diabetics under 45, prolonged the lives of those over 45. But insulin, observes Dublin, does not confer immortality. Sooner or later diabetes becomes complicated with other diseases like pneumonia, cancer, hardening of the arteries, etc. Diabetics are especially susceptible to gangrene (the tiniest infections are dangerous) since their blood vessels are often blocked with...
...potentialities of the Devens team are totally unknown to the Crimson coaches and managers, but the soldiers warn that they will throw the best men they can gather into the meet which may or may not spell disaster for the Crimson. One thing is sure, it will probably be no draw but a smashing victory for one side or the other...