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...took a deep breath and let it out in a slow sigh. He closed the history text and pushed away the notebook. Those were the days, he thought. The Renaissance, the rebirth of an old culture and the birth of a new one; that was the time when he should have lived. He would certainly have been another Da Vinci, an artist at everything. He could see himself now; architect, inventor, poet--Vag leaned back perilously in his chair--the full man. What chance did he have today--the chair jerked forward again--in a regimented world where...
...Yorker. It was performed by special dispensation, the work of the first ASCAP man to return to the networks with his own tunes. The composer and conductor was lanky, ruddy, silvery-haired Robert Russell Bennett, back on the air in a WOR-Mutual program called Russell Bennett's Notebook (7 p.m. E. S. T.). The program has been allowed to return, mainly because Mr.Bennett plays noncommercial music...
...boiling, Bennett has written-under the name of Robert Russell Bennett-an Abraham Lincoln Symphony, an opera, Maria Malibran, the fountain-&-fireworks music of the late New York World's Fair, many another serious piece. Now he can play the like of them on Russell Bennett's Notebook...
...read in a medical journal that if you tie off a pancreas duct, the digestive juice cells shrivel up, die. That gave him the great idea-how to get the digestive juices out of the way, to get at the spark-plug chemical. He wrote three sentences in a notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks for degeneration. Remove residue and extract." Then he went to bed, but probably not to sleep...
...chiropractor named Wilfred C. Blair locked himself in a closet with a 25-lb. cake of dry ice. Aim: a "scientific experiment" with carbon dioxide. As the ice melted, it gave off C02 fumes. In 20 minutes, the chiropractor was dead. Next to his body police found a notebook containing his pulse, temperature and respiration record...