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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spine, and a smaller, "active" one over a paralyzed muscle. The current is turned on and the muscle "tickled" six to ten times a minute. Gradually, the number of muscle contractions can be raised to the normal number of 30 or 40 a minute for a period of three minutes. Such stimulation, if cautiously and skillfully applied, has worked wonders with "old" paralysis, wrote Dr. Richard Kovacs of Manhattan. After four weeks of electric stimulation, he said, one patient with an "atrophied leg ... of 18 years' standing" was able to bend her knee again...
...rundown? Try a bottle of sarsaparilla and watch those muscles grow." That is the sort of thing famed Hormone-Maker Russell Earl Marker of Penn State expected to see splashed all over the papers last week. Reason: he had just told chemists about his new, cheap, artificial production of three powerful sex hormones (testosterone, progesterone and desoxy-corticosterone), from sarsaparilla root compounds. A boon to doctors, Professor Marker's synthetic hormones will cost far less than natural sheep and cow products. Professor Marker warned Penn State's publicity department to warn the press not to sensationalize his sarsaparilla...
...main one: to avoid wearing out radio stars' welcome), Radio does not go in for selling phonograph records of broadcasts to the public. But one night last week, listeners to WQXR in Manhattan heard a broadcast called Then Came War: 1939 that anyone was welcome to buy, on three double-faced, twelve-inch records...
...tall, big-jawed, witty bachelor, Philippe Heriat considers himself to have been one of the three worst students in his school. The other two: French...
...Directions has more than one string to its bow and last fortnight produced three redeeming books...