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...Mission set up camp. The Mayor of Omaha proclaimed a minute of silence on two of the mornings the preaching team was present. In Seattle 8,000 people crowded the Civic Auditorium while 5,000 were turned away. In Chicago 30,000 attended a series of meetings in the Loop district; in Philadelphia the Mission lunched with Mayor S. Davis Wilson and city officials during a three-day visit attracting 20,000 listeners. In St. Louis the Globe-Democrat issued daily supplements detailing Mission activities and one young man declared that the team's appearance had dissuaded him from...
...Angeles police in the Hollywood area recently had to clean up an outbreak of car "jockeys''-youths who jumped on the running board, wiped the windshield with a dirty rag, refused to budge until tipped. Berliners are bothered by car-watching on Kurfurstendamm, Chicagoans in the Loop, Viennese on the Ringstrasse...
...head from ear to ear. At each junction of the ear-to-ear line and the slits in the scalp, Drs. Freeman & Watts drill a hole with a dentist's bur. The bur holes permit passage of a leucotome, or lobotomy cannula, a hollow needle through which a loop of wire can be slipped...
...operations, explained Dr. Freeman, this instrument "is inserted in the anteromedial [front and centre] direction to a depth of four centimetres below the surface of the cortex. The stylet is pressed in, forming a loop near the distal end of the instrument. The leucotome is rotated through one complete circle, cutting a sphere or core of white matter in the pre-frontal area about ten millimetres in diameter. The stylet is withdrawn a few millimetres thus replacing the loop within the cannula. A second core is cut at a depth of three centimetres and a third at two centimetres...
Dust on your old fedora for this is a week-end of revelry. When the Harvard Indian meets the Cambridge Johnnie on the Stadium battle ground, war whoops echo through the town. So after dusk on bean night trekle around the loop...