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...Anton Carlson envied Dr. Beaumont. For there were a number of vital questions that plagued him, and which he had insufficient evidence to answer: What is hunger? What is appetite? Does hunger originate in the brain or the stomach...
...years of secrets; left with the high regard of White House reporters, who were eternally grateful to him for many things but especially one-the night of Feb. 15, 1933, at the Miami Bay Front Park when Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt, fatally wounded Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak instead. All White House reporters were on the train a quarter-mile away. Henry ran the quarter-mile, gave them a thorough fillin, saved their jobs to a man. Kannee last week resigned his $6,000-a-year position to get "considerably more" as assistant to Chairman-President...
...dean of U. S. physiologists, Chicago's Anton Julius Carlson, declared that the problem of alcoholism "is too complex for any one of our biological and medical disciplines. The sociologist should be present at the start, and I imagine we will not travel very far before we ask for the aid of the genetecist and the educator. [It] . . . is going to be a labor of Hercules...
...late night air above pent and country houses. Aldous Huxleyans and Evelyn Waughans smile from time to time with irony and pity, but their eyelids are a little weary. Confirmed Wodehousians hoot, holler, writhe, snort, bellow, nicker, and in culminating transports, belch. Asked why, they may look blank, indignant. Anton Chekhov once said that the best description of the sea he had ever read was written by a Russian schoolboy: "The sea is vast." Wodehousians explain the master's illimitable spell just as simply: He is funny...
...evening meeting began with a discussion of "Can American Democracy Survive?" by Professor J. Anton de Haas. Professor de Haas was followed by Professor A. H. Hansen, who spoke on "The Impact of a Totalitarian Victory on the American Economy," and suggested that a German Europe and a British-American-Far Eastern economic bloc could exist side by side...