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...years of research, he tracked down 164 cases, reports Dr. Bean (now at the University of Iowa) in the current A.M.A. Journal. The cases range over 300 years, from a "woeman or mayd in Suffolk who had a julking and fluctuation in her chest . . . heard by the standers by," to soldiers in modern war. Some of the noises-likened to the grinding of gears, the rustling of leaves, the crunching of newspapers, the cooing of doves-have kept their victims awake for nights on end; others have made it impossible for husbands or wives to sleep in the same room...
...Chest-Beater. The result was not, as might be expected, a kind of Spike Jones pandemonium, but gently exuberant, whimsical and thoroughly disciplined. Eddie Sauter and his partner Bill Finegan are running the most original band heard in the U.S. in years...
...tour this summer. They decided to achieve new sounds by wider use of the old instruments. "We wanted to go high, so we wrote for piccolos," says Sauter. "We wanted to go low, so we added the tuba." Among the band's special effects: Finegan pounding his chest vigorously to imitate horses' hooves...
Ninety minutes earlier, Private Leonid Ashkhenin of the Red army, Tommy gun slung across his chest, had paced back & forth guarding the showy marble Russian war memorial in Berlin's British sector. He had orders to bar visitors at night, but an elderly German couple had strolled by, and Leonid let them pass. A Red lieutenant came out of the guard shack, snapped at Ashkhenin: "For what you just did, you can be shot tomorrow...
...Allied Diseases. Memorial's pathologists agreed that the cells indicated a "malignancy." What kind, or where it had started, no one could be sure. Taft was told that he "might have cancer." Even before he left Cincinnati, more nodules broke out in his mouth and on his chest and back...