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When our MEDICINE section reported on the new "push-pull" (Jan. 8) method of artificial respiration developed in research under Chicago's Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, the radical technique had been tried only on nine quite healthy volunteers and 109 newly dead bodies. Never had it been tested on an actual drowning victim...
...five-year-old Mary Jane Vickery showed no signs of reviving. Tongay took a chance. He tried the push-pull, and she soon began to stir. After a night in Broward Hospital, Mary Jane went home, fully recovered...
Tongay reported this first test case to the researchers who developed the push-pull method. Said Dr. Ivy: "A doctor's work, in practice or research, is intended to save lives. This makes me feel good . . ." TIME'S job is to tell the news; this makes us feel good...
...Central. It suspended dividends, and its stock, which had once hit $184, fell to $4.75. Control of the entire $700,000,000 system could have been bought for only $3,300,000. By trimming costs to the bone, President Lawrence Downs and his successor, John L. Beven, managed to pull the road through, though it was touch & go. One time, the papers were even drawn up to put it into bankruptcy. World War II sent the road highballing again, and Beven began using earnings to trim the $368 million debt and buy new equipment. When Beven died in 1945, Wayne...
...describes the interiors of Mongol yurts and lamaseries, observes with fascination the diversion of technical talents that once conquered Asia into the construction of more & more intricate prayer wheels. He describes without flurry Mongol butchering (directions: cut a hole in the animal's side, pull out the heart, squeeze it until animal is dead), and admires the tricks which Mongol farmers play on their reluctant soil to make it yield. Yet in a land where there is barely enough to eat, an undernourished girl may have silver rings in her ears. Cammann condenses his impressions of Inner Mongolia into...