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...field of tuberculosis since the time of Koch. Thus, the therapeutic possibilities of sulfones and streptomycin, as well as the studies of immunization with BCG, are discussed in the very same issue of your magazine; you could also have mentioned, among other lines of progress, the improvement of X-ray methods of diagnosis, the campaign for the detection of early cases, the growth of sanatoria, the different procedures of collapse therapy...
Married. Gladys George, 41, lush blonde cinemactress and Broadway star (Personal Appearance, The Skin of Our Teeth, Madame X); and Kenneth C. Bradley, 32, Los Angeles bellhop; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Riverside, Calif...
Subsequent comparisons of Mr. X's painting with X-rays taken of Mrs. Darlington's painting while it was in Fogg in 1940 proved them to be the same. Aside from commenting that Mr. X is neither a "prominent Bostonian" nor anyone connected with Harvard, officials here refuse to talk about the return of the long-missing masterpiece...
This discovery has some immediate applications. Blond, bushy-browed Walter H. Zinn, the discoverer, who looks like a happy Mephistopheles, thinks that neutrons can probably be used like X rays to examine the structure of molecules. Neutrons are light enough to be scattered by hydrogen atoms, which X rays do not detect; hence they can be used to study organic molecules, such as viruses, which mark the difference between living and inanimate matter...