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Died. Rachel Carson, 56, biologist and author; of cancer of the bone; in Silver Spring, Md. (see SCIENCE...
...Baby Bruins, who were undefeated during their indoor season, could easily have spoiled the Crimson's record. The Yardings were especially vulnerable without hurdler and broad jumper Harvey Thomas, who broke a bone in his foot last week...
...become too intellectual. I always tell Elliott, talk to me sensory." Ray Stark, with an exhausted expression, says that "she'll drive you bats with too much analysis. It's not arrogance, but doubt. She is like a barracuda. She devours every piece of intelligence to the bone." One of her actor friends says that "she is like a filter that filters out everything except what relates to herself. If I said, 'There's been an earthquake in Brazil,' she would answer, 'Well, there aren't any Brazilians in the audience tonight...
...Fracture. Glenn hit his head so hard that shock waves went rippling through his temporal bone. Since the inner and middle ears are contained in a cavity in this bone, they took the full force of the shock. The canals may have been bruised and become swollen. It is possible that the same thing happened to the utricle and saccule. There may have been some internal bleeding, though there is no direct evidence of it. It may be simply that the shock irritated the microscopic nerve endings that pick up signals from the nonhearing organs for transmission to the brain...
...real work beyond easy symbolism and easier outrage, in the Dickensian world of created character. He is what a writer should be, no pamphleteer but a patient and compassionate exhibitor of the tender and grisly oddments that find themselves locked up, helter-skelter, in the strange rag-and-bone shop of the human heart...