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...Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt (TIME, Aug. 26). Some 2,000 vagotomies have already been performed in the U.S.; Dr. Dragstedt is credited with 300. Properly done, the operation seems to be generally successful in stopping certain ulcers of the small intestine (Dr. Dragstedt does not recommend it for stomach ulcers...
...section of the frontal lobe, and is supposed to break up the disturbing mental patterns that have unbalanced the patient. In six out of ten cases lobotomy seems to be successful. But one patient in ten is relaxed too much by the operation; three in ten remain tense. Psychiatrists recommend the operation only for otherwise incurable psychotics. But at the chief U.S. lobotomy centers-George Washington University Hospital, Lahey Clinic, Boston Psychopathic-surgeons are being swamped by demands for lobotomy by alcoholics, criminals, frustrated businessmen, unhappy housewives and people who are just nervous...
Berendsen: If nothing can be done, I recommend that an inquiry be addressed to Admiral Byrd for information on the correct equipment for this climate...
...really as bad as all that? The committee, well aware of Young's rabid animosity towards what he calls "goddamned bankers," was impressed but far from convinced. Unless other RFC dealings, which it began to investigate this week, prove to be much worse, the committee will probably recommend that RFC be allowed to live, though with drastically reduced powers...
...literary unknowns achieves nationwide attention through sympathetic reviews in the leading book review columns across the country, and three pages in Life magazine, the casual reader assumes something unusual has been written. When this book is not replete with scenes of sex (although one such story included might recommend the book on this basis), the bystander should be poring over its contents to find the reason for all this publicity. In "The Purple Testament," he will find himself perusing not outstanding technical composition but written fragments...