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...Fascistes. . . ." On the curb, propped up against the wall, sat a dark woman; her dress had been torn off, and her naked left breast had been blackened by blows. Her hair fell over her shoulders, and she was sobbing heartrendingly. Her name was Lise Ricol, and she is a prominent member of the Communist "Union des Femmes Françaises...
That gave the doctor an idea. Under the microscope, one type of normal animal tissue-embryonic-closely resembles cancer. Dr. Greene planted some embryonic tissue in guinea pigs' eyes. It worked. In a guinea pig's eye, transplanted embryonic breast tissue gave milk, tissue from the testes produced sperm...
...Memorial, as elsewhere, surgery, radium and X rays are still the basic, most successful treatments. Some 90% of Memorial's patients are operated on (the hospital's "fiveyear cure" rate for stomach cancer: 25%). But Memorial is also pioneering in hormones for breast and prostate cancers, radioactive iodine for thyroid cancers, nitrogen mustards for Hodgkin's disease, radioactive phosphorus for certain forms of leukemia, a urine test for early cancer detection, studies of an extract of the adrenal gland, which looks like a hopeful candidate against stomach cancer...
Appalled by his parents' Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism, he soaked up the religious mysticism of Emanuel Sweden-borg.-Believing that God was within man, he was scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...freshmen have to wear funny green porkies and then they have a crazy fight with the sophomores, and if the freshmen win, they don't have to wear the little hats any more. But the freshmen had tough luck this year. They lost to the sophomores. Seniors wear single breasted green coats with their class numbers sewn over the breast. The whole outfit looks something like the band at the New Ritz uses...