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Beyond therapy, the textbook has practical application in "Preventive Dianetic." The golden rule could be altered to read: "If you love your brother, keep your mouth shut when he is unconscious." As a more general rule of thumb, "say nothing around a woman who has been struck or jarred in any way . . . If she speaks, don't answer . . . You have no idea of whether she is pregnant...
Settling Red. Chief demonstrator was Harvard's Professor (of Biochemistry) Edwin Joseph Cohn, whose research made the mobile laboratory possible. Because blood begins to deteriorate as soon as it leaves the veins, the needle used by Dr. Cohn's team has a special inside coating to keep the white cells from sticking to its sides and being destroyed. From the needle the blood flows through a plastic tube lined with a resinous compound to remove the calcium and keep it from clotting...
Thus, on giving some of her characters a whacking oldtime breakfast of bacon & eggs, Author Thirkell feels bound to give credibility to the occasion by explaining that a friend of one of the guests "had a licence to keep pigs" and the host's hens "happened to be laying." A well-stuffed tea bin is hastily attributed to "hoarded American gifts," while the gay poppings of corks (which resound throughout the book) are thanks to "a pal at Portsmouth" or even "an old pal of mine, Pinky Smith [who] sends me . . . rum from the West Indies." There is also...
Burnt Child. In Philadelphia, Clarence J. Malehorn, summoned to testify before a federal grand jury investigating gambling, explained why he did not want to answer several questions: the women on the jury could not be trusted to keep his testimony secret...
...contribution of works of art for the Museum at Paris; being the first instance of the kind that occurs in modern history. Parma furnished twenty pictures chosen by the French Commissioners, amongst which was the famous Saint Jerome [by Correggio]. The duke offered two millions to be allowed to keep this picture." But Napoleon ruled that it would be "ornamental" to his capital...