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...Francis X. Mancuso, former general sessions judge, crisply admitted to his longtime acquaintance with Costello and Luchese. His suave self-assurance unshaken, Mancuso also admitted that he had decided not to run again for leadership of an East Harlem assembly district after two local hoodlums had "advised" him to resign...
...pace for the future: two original plays (The Badmen, by William Saroyan, and The Trial of Anne Boleyn, by Maxwell Anderson); excerpts from The Mikado, with Britain's famed Martyn Green; two short films (Witch Doctor, an authentic Haitian dance with Jean Leon Destine, and clips from an X-ray movie...
...astronomer's telescope would seem oddly out of place in a doctor's office. But at the University of Chicago, Dr. Paul C. Hodges, has turned a Schmidt-type telescope into a highly efficient camera for making X-ray pictures of the human abdomen. The simplified system of lenses and concave mirror that can photograph the dimmest starlight is being used for quick, sharp snapshots of a faint, fluorescent screen...
Doctors can now look forward to routine abdominal X rays-perhaps as useful to preventive medicine as production-line chest X rays have been in the fight against TB. In the past, X-ray study of the intestines has been an expensive and time-consuming process. Where one chest X ray is usually enough, an examination of the stomach may need as many as six exposures. But the dense, intestine-packed abdominal cavity requires so much radiation for its shadow pictures that six slow exposures in succession may be dangerous for the patient...
After the doctors X-rayed Martin's shoulder today they decided he could play if he can get his father's permission. refugees...