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Divorced. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, former No. i ranking U.S. tennis player (during the '305) and Davis Cupper (1934); by Donna Marina Torlonia Shields, 32, daughter of the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
First they compared what happened when the patient tried to swallow with what happens when a normal person swallows. Because ordinary X-ray movies were too fast, the doctors slowed them down to 60 a second. They found out what they wanted to know: one reason their patient was choking was that he could not raise his Adam's apple. But how to get his swallowing mechanism working again...
...Poloris Co., which manufactures one type of ammoniated powder called Amm-i-dent, has chosen the schoolchildren of Mahopac, N.Y. (pop. 1,109). Some 500 Mahopac pupils from kindergarten through the tenth grade will be asked to brush their teeth twice a day with Amm-i-dent. Free X rays and periodic dental examination will provide a running check on the experiment. Its sponsors hope that the new powder will prove effective against decay, regardless of the tooth-owner...
...hence to talk clearly-a man must not only be conscious of the abstracting process, but he must also know the nature of a fact. He must remember that he never knows all about a "fact": there is always, as the count says, the "etc." Secondly, a fact (pencil x or John Smith) is not the same today as it was yesterday. A, despite Aristotle, is not always A. Therefore, "you must not think 'I am going in to dinner now,' " says the count. "You must think, 'I, February 1949, am going in to dinner.' " Failure...
Last week, Baby Michael Goldstein and his sister Karen, 2½, were in the Ophthalmological Institute of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center; they had the same disease. Karen had one eye removed; X-ray treatments were begun to try to save the other eye. Baby Michael, eleven months old, lost both eyes...