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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two University of Illinois doctors reported last week that they had developed an instrument which, they hoped, would help to detect heart disease in its earliest stages. If their hope is fulfilled, countless cases of heart trouble may now be detected when they begin-in the arteries-and treated in...
Senior member of the research team which gave this encouraging news to the Chicago Society of Internal Medicine and the Chicago Heart Association was Physiologist Andrew C. Ivy, vice president of the University of Illinois. Under his general direction, an astonishingly simple machine called the "flicker photometer" was perfected by...
His teammates put him down as lazy and self-centered. Instead of pounding his glove in disgust after booting one, Wakefield would laugh and admit that he sure looked like a clown on that one. When Manager Steve O'Neill once tried to shock him out of his complacency...
Before the publishing house of George Newnes Ltd., just off London's Strand, a hansom cab stopped and out stepped an elegant young man in top hat and frock coat. He was Arthur Conan Doyle, come to deliver the manuscript of a short story entitled A Scandal in Bohemia...
Had We Lived. Under Greenough Smith, the magazine also spurred the Edwardian spirit of adventure and empire by travelogues, picture biographies of famous men and foreign correspondence by Winston Churchill (see THE HALF-CENTURY). The Strand's notable scientific articles were usually written by nonscientists. When Greenough Smith wanted...