Nobel Prize Winners Awarded for Heart Catheterization Advance
Two Americans Dr. Andre Cournand and Dr. Dickinson Richards of Columbia University and German Werner Forssmann shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in medicine for developing a simple method to chart the interior of the human heart. The award honors the introduction of heart catheterization and its role in understanding heart disease.
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Stockholm
Drs
Andre F. Cournand
Dickinson W. Richards Jr
Columbia University
New York
Werner Forssmann
Bad Kreuznach
West Germany
Caroline Institute of Medicine and Physiology
Alfred Nobel
Nobel
Forssman
Berlin
Cucinus
Forssmann
New York Columbia University
Cournand
Richards
Bellevue Hospital
Nixon Bucks Storm in New England Trip
President Nixon braved stormy weather to campaign across southern New England in an effort to swing Rhode Island for Republicans. He denounced “Trumanism with a StevensoniT abel” and accused Adlai Stevenson of seeking more government in daily life, planning 15 to 20 billion dollars annually. The stop included Providence city hall and continued to Worcester and New York City with a din ner stop and talks.
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Providence
R. 1
Nixon
New England
Atlantic
Ithaca
V. C
Cornell
Worcester
Mass
Boston
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York City
Alfred E. Smith
Adlai Stevenson
Bush
Stevenson
Demos California drive raises 200000 in one day
Democrats report a one day fundraising drive in California bringing in 200000. Lionel Steinberg of Fresno leads the effort with William S. Rosenthal of Los Angeles aiming to cover all of the state's counties. Republicans plan a Ripon celebration Oct 30 with Knowland Benson and Brown among speakers.
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Associated Presa
California
Lionel Steinberg
Fresno
Northern
William S. Rosenthal
Los Angeles
Ripon
San Joaquin
Stanislaus
Merced
Tuolumne
Ques
Rinals
William F. Knowland
Gov. Knight
Agriculture
Ezra’ Taft Benson
Sen
Kuchel
Atty
Edmund G. Brown
Motor car registrations fall in first eight months of 1958
New passenger car registrations across the country for January to August 1958 total 4,191,804 units, down from 4,817,320 in the same period of 1955. The report highlights a significant decline in retail deliveries versus the prior year.
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Detroit
Youth Dies in Chicago Gang Fight
In a southwest side park on Wednesday night a deadly gang confrontation left Warren White, 17, dead and Edward Melant Jr., 18, seriously wounded. Fred Kruse, 18, admitted firing the fatal shots. Richard Bukovic, 19, slashed and burned, also a Kruse ally, was injured and four other youths were detained without charge.
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Chicago
Fred Kruse
Warren White
Edward Melant Jr
Berton
Richard Bukovic
Kruse
Bukovic
Estes Given Roaring Missouri Reception
In Joplin Missouri Senator Estes received a roaring reception as he spoke on farm price supports and the need for an international agreement to halt nuclear testing. He contrasted Democratic plans with President Eisenhower policies and urged courage in the fight to end a deadly strategic race.
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Joplin
Estes
Kefauver
Democratic Ac
Missouri
Kansas
Adlai Stevenson
Ster
Atenson
Eisenhower
Ling
Springfield
For All Humanity
Shrine Auditorium
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Cornell University
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Demos
Calif
Benson
Modesto
Brown
Gov. Stevenson
United States
Richard "Richards
Uxiah
Columbia
Columbica
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