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...eyeful of gorgeous Cleo, it was as if "an exotic and beautiful wild creature [was] trampling the quiet loveliness of a well-tended flower garden." Shamus was even more trampled when he discovered that Cleo was one of the Hollywood party which he had agreed to ship to New Guinea in search of background material for a new film...
...Audio-Guinea Pigs...
...assistance of Gordon E. Peterson, research fellow in the Psycho Acoustic Lab. Davis made painstaking tests to find out more about the workings of the partially deafened ear, and to measure the loudest sound which both normal and defened subjects could tolerate with comfort. Using conscientious objectors as guinea pigs, he was able to design the "theoretically perfect hearing...
Presented as one of the most successful guinea pigs was Hubert K. Beard '10, a former president of the Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing. He dramatized several of the problems confronting the hard of hearing, such as making adjustments for musical sounds as well as conversation...
When the Warden heard about Prisoner Stiles's leisure-time project, he sent some Stiles drawings to nearby Mare Island naval base. The Navy offered tools and materials, later supplied a human guinea pig: 25-year-old Lieut. Howard Pollack, who had lost his right arm in the South Pacific campaign. Stiles, with Lieut. Pollack's cooperation, eventually developed an artificial hand which he claimed would tweeze, grip, poke, carry and press. A Stiles-equipped amputee might thus be able to bowl, play golf, pick up a pin, hold a cigaret, button his own sleeve...