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Jane has little plot; it is a pattern of sharp repartee and character dilineation. Its performers--Edna Best, John Loder, and Howard St. John--strut across the stage, catching epithets and deftly whipping them back. And for at least one whole act--until the wind gives out--Jane sails along lightly and smoothly...
...Margarita's freshmen came over for the first time, and set up a defensive pattern against which the varsity tried various plays...
Like a chameleon on a piece of Scotch plaid, the patient has a complex pattern of response. Several of the endocrine (ductless) glands go to work. The adrenals pump out both adrenalin and cortisone-like hormones. Both lobes of the pituitary step up their activity. So, probably, does the thyroid. Triggered by these hormonal reactions, about which much is yet to be learned, the body's chemistry changes in a dozen ways...
...Moore surrounded himself with a team of equally eager young researchers. They worked at Massachusetts General and Peter Bent Brigham hospitals, both connected with Harvard Medical School, where now, at 39, Moore is a full professor. Gradually they chased down other pieces of the patient's jigsaw pattern of progress; so did other teams in other centers. Last week St. Louis' Carl A. Moyer and Manhattan's Henry T. Randall attracted attention with new (and highly technical) reports...
Food & Drink. Now, only a dozen years after the investigation got going in earnest, the new-school surgeons have assembled this much of the pattern...