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...current American Journal of Surgery he, a radio enthusiast, explained how he had equipped himself to talk to his classes without raising his voice and disturbing the patient. His device is a microphone mounted on a little rod, held before his mouth inside the surgeon's mask by a headband, connected to an amplifier built into a suitcase...
...experience, whatever it is. So many of my friends have faced it, why not I? In the meantime, why fret about it? I have been shaving this funny old face every Sunday. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for years and years. I have come to look on it as a mask behind which lies the reality that it has to hide. It is getting a bit battered and shopworn. Perhaps it would not be such a bad idea to cast it off and let dust return to dust...
...MASK OF SILENUS-Babette Deutsch-Simon & Schuster ($2). Short novel about Socrates, humanizing Xantippe...
...passion for tearing things apart, but in point of destructiveness they are bungling amateurs compared with their big-brained relative, man. . . . For untold millions of years the long line of vertebrates that led toward man was of unblushing thieves and robbers. Even now, the human face beneath its smiling mask carries the old mammalian trap set with sharp teeth. ... No wonder we suffer from grafters, gunmen and racketeers. The wonder is, not that so many of us find ourselves in prison, but that any of us have learned to keep out. "As soon as apes began to go in families...
Katharine Cornell is of more than average height. Her broad, mobile face is ruled off at the bottom quarter by a large, loose mouth which can be as horrible as a conventionalized Grecian mask or can twist up into one of the most appealing smiles on the U. S. boards. Her eyes are as heavy-lidded as Tallulah Bankhead's. not from cinematographic languor but from a ceaseless brooding contemplation. She now wears her dark, slightly wavy hair shoulder length and behind her ears. Her friends call her "Kit." She is precious in the care of her voice, does...