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Bruce Fowler and Porky Pitts scored a surprising sweep in the 200-yard breast stroke to help the Crimson tankmen to an easy 60-35 victory Saturday over the Cornell swimmers at Ithaca...
...hair was translucent and slippery as spun glass, his skin white and soft as the flesh beneath a woman's breast, bluish in certain folds and hollows; his eyes gleamed liquidly as pale green jellyfish in shifting rays of sunlight. He lay curied and dreaming like a foetus swimming in formaidehyde...
...hard, harsh life. The market woman's day begins at 4 a.m.; by sunup, she is ready for business-often with a derby on her head, a strong cigar between her teeth, an infant at her breast. While her five or six older chil dren scurry underfoot and her common-law husband of the moment snores the day away, she haggles and harangues, using every wile to turn a profit. She rigs prices, forms miniature cartels, organizes rock-solid unions that defy municipal authorities...
...from the A.M.A. Journal the text of a talk given last June by Baltimore Surgeon Edward F. Lewison. And the talk was little more than quotes from a book Lewison had published eight years earlier, contending that despite improvements in detection and treatment, the death rate of women from breast cancer has stayed about the same for half a century...
...blunt rejoinder came promptly from Manhattan's prestigious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "It should be re-emphasized," said Medical Director Henry T. Randall, "that breast cancer detected at an early stage and promptly and adequately treated is one of the most curable of human cancers...