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"As a man Ewing is simple in habits and tastes; sincere; intensely loyal; helpful to colleagues; possessing a subtle humor; a lover of competitive sports; tactful in the handling of men and opposing forces; scientifically resourceful and imaginative; optimistic always; idealistic in his belief in men; indulgent to a fault; having an unusual sense of fairness; scientifically aggressive and persistent; one who welcomes and encourages new avenues of approach to problems; a tireless worker; a severe but constructive critic; discriminating in his estimate of scientific contributions; a stimulating teacher; a forceful lecturer; an indefatigable contributor to scientific movements; a scholar; beloved by students and colleagues; a physician of the highest ideals."
Professor Ewing's tennis approaches professional dexterity. At his home at West Hampton, L. I., he plays the game steadily over the weekends on his own court. Meticulous in attending his classes at Cornell Medical School, he demands meticulous attendance of his students. Only matters of rare importance keep him from a lecture. One of those rare matters occurred some few years ago. Three fearful, truant students beheld him at a baseball game between the Pittsburgh (his home town) Pirates and the New York Giants, waving his hat when Honus Wagner made a homerun.
* Lippincott; $10.
* WiIliam James Mayo (the elder brother) remarks in Cancer: "Inasmuch as the testis is the primitive organ of procreation from which the ovary is derived, it has a protective heredity behind it." Similarly the small intestine is less susceptible to Cancer than its newer connections, the stomach and large bowel.
* TIME in its Oct. 17 issue reported that Dr. Allen Buckner Kanavel, president of the American College of Surgeons, said that "The coagula tion caused by the [electro] cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them." TIME was misinformed. President Kanavel's opinion is "quite the opposite."
† The American Association for the Advance ment of Science last week gave its annual prize to the inventor of a huge new ray tube (see p. 41).