Word: detector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours locating a needle in a man's foot, though the X ray showed it clearly. So Dr. Alexander Edwin William Ada, of Manhattan, who had never heard of anyone's getting a needle out of a heart before, decided to use the pencil-like electronic metal detector invented by Subway Engineer Samuel Berman (TIME, Aug. 30). It had been used successfully on 22 Pearl Harbor wounds...
What Dr. Ada did with the detector sounds simple, but the operation took more than two hours. First the detector showed that the needle had moved to the back of the heart, a different position from that shown in the last X ray. Next Dr. Ada had to tilt the beating heart, slowly move the detector over its undersurface. At last he thought he knew where to make his incision. He cut into the heart muscle, felt the needle, gently pulled...
...detector won. In Brooklyn last week Mrs. Edna Hancock, who had pitted her word against that of a lie detector in a recent rape case (TIME, Jan. 10), was indicted for perjury. Her alleged rapist, Murray Goldman, was saved from a ten-year prison sentence...
...case could not alter the fact that lie detectors may sometimes lie,* but that was all right with Mr. Goldman. Mrs. Hancock, an employe of Brooklyn State Hospital, had charged that he broke into her room and tried to rape her. A jury convicted him. But when the lie detector supported his story that he was no stranger to Mrs. Hancock's favors, Judge Samuel Leibowitz went hunting for corroborative evidence. Result: several other men friends of Mrs. Hancock (besides her husband) turned up. She finally admitted that she had met Goldman before. Last week the District Attorney waved...
...Unless there is evidence supporting the detector, there can obviously be no proof that it is telling the truth...