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...Stateville prison in Joliet, Ill., the warden said that Inmate Nathan Leopold, now a bald 48, who teamed with Richard Loeb in the brutal 1924 "thrill murder" of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, has been a "very good" prisoner. He works as an X-ray technician in the prison hospital. Through the prison school and correspondence courses, he has learned "about 25 languages." Next New Year's Day he will be eligible for parole. His plans? Said the warden: "I don't think he knows himself what he'd do if he ever gets...
...revolutionary electron gun, developed by the University of Chicago's Dr. Robert J. Moon, is being perfected for X-raying hard-to-get-at organs such as the stomach and lower intestines. Using a pinpoint X-ray beam and a scanning system, it throws a brilliant, enlarged image on a TV screen, subjects both patient and radiologist to much smaller and safer doses of X rays than older methods...
...always a tricky technical problem to hold a patient in position for deep, high-power X-ray treatments, e.g., those used in cancer. In the past, uncomfortable plaster casts, straps and sandbags have been used. Now, thanks to cooperation between cancer experts and a geologist, Manhattan's Francis Delafield Hospital has a better method. A rubber bag is half-filled with small plastic "pebbles" and molded around the part of the body to be immobilized. Then the air is withdrawn from the bag. The vacuum "freezes" the plastic pebbles into a solid mass which holds the patient like...
...Birmingham, technicians asked the visiting Metropolitan Opera troupe to have their pictures taken to help launch a new mobile X-ray unit. Soprano Lily Pons agreed, and tossed out a challenge: "You will see the most wonderful lungs you have ever seen . . . I can hold my breath longer than anyone else at the Metropolitan. What's more I can sing [a continuous perfect high note] for 13 seconds without taking in more air." Tenor Jan Peerce countered with his boast: "I can hold my breath one minute and 13 seconds with my mouth full of pebbles." Basso Norman Scott...
...biggest surprise came when Ohio Match let out that it, in turn, is controlled by Norton Simon, 45, chairman of famed Hunt Foods, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 8, 1945), a big and successful West Coast food-packing company. Shrewd, canny Simon, who has an X-ray eye for spotting undervalued companies, had kept his control a secret. He had moved in when Government trustbusters, in 1946, forced the principal stockholders of Diamond Match Co. to sell their controlling interest in Ohio Match. Simon, checking into the company's books, found it had a net worth...