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Simultaneously with Mather's lecture it was reported that a new volcano in Mexico had erupted, building up a cone 1000 feet high and driving inhabitants from a nearby town. The University is sending an expedition today to study the developments of the new volcano...
...paying his share of their Dutch treats for four years and then married somebody else, won a $179.89 judgment against him for half of 250 purchases, including a package of pistachio nuts, a bag of potato chips, a Mother's Day card, and an ice-cream cone...
...anesthetic cone, Lipes used a tea strainer through which the patient breathed ether; for the incision, a broken-handled scalpel from the ship's medicine chest; for antiseptic, alcohol drained from torpedoes; for muscle retractors (to hold the incision open), bent tablespoons. Oversize rubber gloves encumbered Lipes. After cutting through layers of muscle, he took 20 minutes to find the appendix. "I think I've got it," Lipes finally whispered. "It's curled around the blind gut. . . . More flashlights, another battle lantern...
...difference between Welles and the advertising agency (Lord & Thomas, now Foote, Cone & Belding) arose when an adman asked Welles's publicity man how the actor should be handled. Welles heard about it and roared: "My God, didn't he even offer you a bribe?" When he met the adman in the studio, Welles enlarged his views. "Why, you incredible little heel," he said, "I understand you have been trying to find out how to run me. Just, please, go away and take all your little boys with you. Lockheed and I will work this out together." The adman...
...Style. Anesthesia has progressed from chloroform to cyclopropane and local and spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...