Medicine: X-Ray Experts

Hundreds of dapper, middle-aged men buzzed around a spooky, blacked-out picture gallery in Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel. They were X-ray specialists, members of the American Roentgen Ray Society, who met last week to exhibit their art, discuss their progress.

Cyclotron for Cancer. Winner of the Society's gold medal was Dr. John Hundale Lawrence of Berkeley, Calif., brother of Nobelman Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who splits atoms with a giant cyclotron. Brother John said last week that cyclotron bombardment can give any element the emanating qualities of radium. These radioactive elements, when swallowed in liquid...

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