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...other bold, competent physicians in the Institute, the study of brain processes and the treatment of brain ills is a "bread-&-butter science." Deeply concerned with detours of nerve paths and battles of brain cells, he knows that a long chain of simple injections, or the sharp bite of a surgeon's knife into grey brain flesh may miraculously humanize a speechless paralytic, a savage child, a cancer victim crazy with pain...
...Navy telling its personnel the score. These and others appeared in the U. S. press, incurred no Federal crackdown. But one of them was also broadcast by at least one radio station, Manhattan's WMCA, and last week there was an official fuss, with apparently more bark than bite...
Above the towering, tumbled hills Shy grey clouds wander near and far: The impatient ravens bite their bills Awaiting the unpunctual star...
...harvest began in Wisconsin and Michigan. Hundreds of Peter Pipers-itinerant pickers, farm laborers, owners of small cucumber patches-worked their way on soil-stained knees between rows of tender vines, carefully pulling off little fellows to be made this winter into gherkins, midgets, tiny-tims and other one-bite numbers, bigger fellows to be brined into dills and koshers...
...pickle prospects are good. Probable gross: slightly better than 1938's $40,000,000. Pressing problems for this year are a shortage of dills (a reaction from last year's overselling of the dill market) and a dearth of one-bite pickles. Last year's summer rains played hob with this year's little fellows. Cucumbers grew overnight from midgets to larger sizes before they could be picked. This year's prospects (for next year's pickles) are better...