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...with Mr. Eliot that a partial return to the medieval way of life is our only solution, or whether you prefer to accept modern life, with all its insecurity and confusion, as a definite improvement on the good old days, the play is an interesting one, especially if you bone up a little on Eliot before curtain time...
After Irvin's ripped tendons and broken bone had been firmly fixed in the cast, the doctors shook their heads. Irvin, they said, was probably through for the season-maybe for all time. It was not only a bad break for Irvin, but also for the Giants' pennant hopes. Speaking with the firm conviction of a man who has often rubbed elbows with hard luck, Irvin said: "This won't stop me, and it won't stop the Giants . . . I'll be back in July or August. I'll be playing by then...
...Bone cancers are hard to treat because if radioactive elements (such as calcium and phosphorus) settle in hard bone, they also affect the marrow and damage the blood-making cells. At Oak Ridge, doctors and radiologists have just eliminated gallium7 2 as unsuitable for treatment, largely because it takes too long to settle in the bone (and meanwhile loses most of its radioactivity). Next on their list is gallium...
...under similar control. Anyone can buy as much as he can afford and carry it home in his pocket. It might cost him $500,000 an ounce, but for a mere $3,000 he can get enough to burn through his pocket and flesh and well into his thigh bone...
...With $444 incampus traffic fines paid by faculty members, Indiana University added a prize to its historical library: the journal kept by Chaplain A. Y. Humphreys of the U.S.S. Constitution in the War of 1812. Wrote the chaplain: "The last bone of fresh beef we brought out from Boston was picked by the first lieutenant at dinner today, and unless we shortly fall in with something of a prize, salt junk and biscuit must be our portion . . ." But then, "Old Ironsides" captured a British schooner and Chaplain Humphreys wrote: "A perfect slop ship and grocery store . . . bountiful cheer for Christmas...