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Music had small charm for Donald Morton. He could not read a note; he had difficulty recognizing tunes; he could not easily tell the sound of one instrument from another. He could not distinguish between an orchestral performance and organ music. Still, by the time he was 35, Morton had learned all too well that there was some music he could tolerate-and some he could not. Loud, fast songs-college marches, the 1812 Overture, New Orleans jazz, rock 'n' roll-went, in effect, in one ear and out the other. They left him unmoved. On the other...
...took just about every test known to neurologists before doctors at the University of Wisconsin Medical Center were certain what was wrong: Donald Morton was suffering from musicogenic epilepsy, a disease as rare as it is difficult to treat. And if diagnosis was difficult, treatment was tedious indeed...
Seized by Carols. Working with a team of acoustical engineers, Wisconsin's Dr. Francis M. Forster and his colleagues determined just what songs, just what instruments, just what rhythms caused Morton to have an epileptic seizure. Hooked up to an electroencephalograph, their patient listened to music with one ear, with the other, and then with both. He listened to a random noise generator with one ear while music was piped to the other. Stardust played on the organ produced no abnormalities; Glenn Miller's orchestrated version touched off fits. Hymns and Christmas carols played by an orchestra...
...that two out of four chief characters on stage do nothing but listen and wander from chair to chair while the other two inarticulately convince themselves that they are finally seeing the truth about their own hearts just the way Tennessee Williams said they would. The director, Morton da Costs (famous for No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame, Music Man and such stuff), has done a barely competent job of maneuvering everyone around the stage, and two of the actors, Beau--son of Lloyd--Bridges, as Tom, and June Harding, as Teena, got their training in the TV wonderland...
...addition, insulin stimulates the deposition of fat. Physicians insist that adult diabetes can nearly always be controlled by diet alone-if only the patient will stick to the diet. But he rarely does. At Grasslands Hospital in New York's Westchester County, Dr. Charles Weller and Dr. Morton Linder found that the more overweight the diabetic gets, the more insulin there is in his blood. And the more insulin, the more he tends to eat and thus store up more fat in an ever-widening vicious circle...