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...offer of anti-influenza injections to all undergraduates serves as an example of the type of anti-disease program that can be executed by a college medical center and, at the same time, points up one of the most marked deficiencies of Harvard health care--the lack of systematic x-ray examinations for University members. Students are no less susceptible to disease than workers in any other sedentary occupation. Yet the prevailing type of examination given to Freshmen and veterans will uncover only such symptoms as are subject to external visual detection...
...Francis X. Murphy, Buffalo, N. Y., Harvard Forum (treasurer), Adams House football, Dunster House football...
Hodgkin's disease is a cancerlike swelling of the lymph nodes and lymphoid tissue, which exists throughout the body. The victims-often young people-live, on an average, for about 30 months after the disease takes hold. The accepted treatment at present is X rays or nitrogen mustard (TIME, Oct. 21). Both are palliatives, offer no hope of cure...
...doubles r Kramer and Falkenburg, in a five-set final over Talbert and Wood's old Davis Cup running mate, Francis X. Shields...
...stark and undeniable facts that Greece stands desperately in need of foreign aid. Despite the efforts of UNRRA, millions of Greeks are starving today. Thanks to the inefficiency of the government, Greece has no income tax, no rationing, and no price controls. The violent fighting between the rightist X-ites and the leftist EAM, if allowed to break out into full-scale civil war would mean the final tragedy for a whole people, whose heroism in the war against the Axis is excelled by no other. Interference in Greece by an outside agency of sufficient wealth and force, then...