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Last spring Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks questioned the objectivity of a National Bureau of Standards' investigation that found the battery additive, AD-X2, worthless, and forced the resignation of Dr. Allen V. Astin, the bureau's director (TIME, April 27; July 6). In the subsequent hullabaloo, a committee of ten well-known scientists was assigned to investigate the battery dope, and Weeks reinstated Astin "temporarily." (He later made the reinstatement permanent.) Last week the committee's report was made public: 1) the quality of the bureau's investigation under Dr. Astin was "excellent...
After the degree of anemia, the doctor must find the cause. There is no excuse nowadays, Dr. Wintrobe contends, for a doctor who just picks a shotgun type of blood tonic from the medical advertisements and hopes for the best. Prescribing iron is merely treating the symptom, and often worthless: an adult male should get all the iron he needs from a normal diet, unless he is losing blood; so should a woman, barring unusual menstrual difficulties. The iron deficiency may be a clue which will lead the thorough physician to a kidney disorder, a liver infection, inflammation...
Inferno (20th Century-Fox). Robert Ryan, a young man about as rich as they come and as worthless as they go, is junketing in the great American Desert, along with his wife (Rhonda Fleming) and the man she secretly loves (William Lundigan). When Ryan falls from his horse and breaks a leg, the lovers ride off, leaving him to dry up and die in the staring sun. Ryan, whose spirit normally comes from a bottle, nevertheless finds the will to fight his way back to safety and salvation. The drama is high, but it would have been much heightened...
Astin, chief of the Bureau of Standards, because, he said, the bureau had not been "sufficiently objective" when it tested AD-X2 and pronounced it worthless. The scientific furor which followed caused Weeks to reinstate Astin temporarily (TIME, April 27), and the Senate Small Business Committee to announce it would hold a full investigation...
...Worthless Calf. The Texas wheat crop this year is expected to be about one-third of normal, the cotton crop one-half. Hardest hit of all are the cattle ranchers. Their ranges are burned up, their ponds and wells are going dry; most of the cattle they have left stand forlornly in the baking fields, ribs pressing against their skin...