Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the meeting, a panel consisting of Christian A. Herter, Jr. '41, member of the Governor's Council and partner in Bingham, Dana, and Gould; John O. Rhome, partner, Hutchins and Wheeler; and Wright Tisdale, assistant general council, Ford Motor Company, will discuss opportunities in legal fields. Russell H. Peck '43, assistant dean of the Harvard Law School, will be moderator...
...hopeless existence, often requiring the care of three or four persons. Yet until recently, despite their frequency and severity, strokes have been neglected by medical researchers because it seemed that so little could be done for their victims. Last week Cornell University's Dr. Irving S. Wright reported the hopeful findings of a just-concluded conference at Princeton (paid for by the National Heart Institute, sponsored by the American Heart Association) of 50 assorted specialists-neurologists, neuro surgeons, physiologists, pathologists, hematologists, internists. Gist of their conclusions: much more can be done to determine the exact nature of a stroke...
Arteriosclerosis and specifically atherosclerosis (the form of the disease in which arteries are plugged by mushy, fatty deposits) is "as great a problem" in stroke victims as in coronary artery disease, said Dr. Wright. A stroke may either precede or follow a heart attack: the two are often associated, and the same patient is likely to have atherosclerosis in both cerebral and coronary arteries. As in heart disease, female sex hormones seem to exert a protective effect (reflected in the relative immunity of premenopausal women), but they cannot be given to men without feminizing them. Needed: a synthetic hormone that...
...House Banking and Currency Committee, with full covering fire from Speaker Sam Rayburn, rejected the President's plea for permission to appoint nine U.S. financial leaders to lead the study, instead decided to do the job itself. The chairman of the investigating committee would undoubtedly be Democrat Wright Patman. Said Speaker Rayburn: "If there is going to be an investigation, Congress ought...
Others receiving plaques were Tino Bertolino of Boston College; Don Johnson, Northeastern; Lou Lovely, Boston University; Jim Stehlin, Brandeis; and Norm Wright, Tufts...