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...these stories were capped by the fascinating tale of Madam X. She had been divorced in 1940 and had collected $40,000 in the process. She had sold $20,000 worth of stocks & bonds in 1942. When she came to Manhattan with her illegitimate daughter, the welfare department had put her on a $222.75-a-month allowance and had allowed her to stay at a hotel of her own choice. When a welfare investigator called, Madam X had "awed" him by appearing in a mink coat and a mink...
...X Uses Deception...
Quarterback Naps Bell was cited by Ludendorf for his successful bits of gridiron strategy, while Mr. X in a series of sneak attacks, caught the CRIMSON's "D" team napping...
Last year, before the season began, Chappuis injured his right wrist, but put off getting an X-ray examination until after the last game. It turned out that his wrist was broken, but he set a new Big Nine passing record with 36 completions in 64 attempts...
...Memorial, as elsewhere, surgery, radium and X rays are still the basic, most successful treatments. Some 90% of Memorial's patients are operated on (the hospital's "fiveyear cure" rate for stomach cancer: 25%). But Memorial is also pioneering in hormones for breast and prostate cancers, radioactive iodine for thyroid cancers, nitrogen mustards for Hodgkin's disease, radioactive phosphorus for certain forms of leukemia, a urine test for early cancer detection, studies of an extract of the adrenal gland, which looks like a hopeful candidate against stomach cancer...