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Student Employment Office offerings do not include openings for human guinea pigs in intoxication experiments, Director John W. Bolt announced yesterday, branding a recent Hearst newspaper article as "false, fantastic, an entirely without foundation...
TIME'S Robert Sherrod, veteran of New Guinea, Attu, Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, remembers that these stories had as much to do with TIME'S popularity among overseas servicemen as the action reports. Says Sherrod...
...Sherover's cerebrograph-a combination record-player, electric clock and pillow microphone. Elliott had selected 15 three-letter words (boy, egg, say, art, run, not, sir, leg, bag, row, ice, out, age, box, eat) and recorded them. Then he picked 40 students, all with perfect hearing, as his guinea pigs...
...Recesses. When they awakened, all the guinea pigs listened to the list. Those who had heard it in their sleep learned it by heart in practically no time. Those who had never heard it took much longer. Elliott concluded that sleep-teaching is similar to reteaching something a person has temporarily forgotten...
...first Workshop guinea-pigs was Sterling North, who is probably the most widely syndicated of all U.S. book reviewers (24 newspapers). Five years ago he had written a pallid little juvenile called Midnight and Jeremiah, which Walt Disney was interested in screening. North rewrote the story into a screen version for Disney and a novel (So Dear to My Heart) for Doubleday. Disney had the story tested by Sindlinger and North obligingly made the Workshop-indicated alterations (which he says were minor). Since then the book has sold 25,000 copies. North was "genuinely converted," he said. "People who scoff...