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Cancer was also on the minds of U.S. radiologists (Xray specialists) as they also convened in Chicago last week. From Dr. Milton Friedman of New York University, late of the Army, they heard of the discovery of a fantastic result of cancer of the testes...
...XRay. Sir Walter Scott, said Mark Twain, did "more real and lasting harm" with his "sham grandeurs" than "any other individual that ever wrote." Today, few Americans suspect how many thousands of native place names are directly or indirectly Sir Walter's. "Poetic" names built around glen, dale, vale, hurst, mere and burn broke out like a rash in the late 1800s; soon they enclosed many cities "like a ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove...
...depth is to measure the overlap of its silhouette, and compare that with the overlap of some body landmark, preferably a bone. The basic principle of this depth-determination technique is as old as geometry. But the Kleins hope that Army & Navy surgeons can use their stereoscopic Xray...
...first aid and even major operations -an emergency hospital with Xray, oxygen tanks, anesthesia, beds, an operating table...
...bootlegger, ex-Klansman, ex-Coughlinite and a black hater of Jews, Communists and Roosevelt last week provided the first humor thus far in the Government's crackdown on "vermin publications." Square-jawed Court Asher, Muncie, Ind. publisher of XRay, was defending his weekly before Washington postal authorities, who gave him until June 2 to show cause why his paper should not be banned for sedition...