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...looked like him. The letters he was os tensibly to have carried to North Africa in a plane that crashed were actually signed by high officials, two of them by Lord Louis Mountbatten. To keep the body from deteriorating on the trip to Spain, famed British Pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury prescribed that it be packed in a large canister...
...Jury Did Not Believe. With Dagmar's corpse on his hands. Fabian looked around the roadside for signs of a struggle. Finding none, he reasoned that the body had been dumped from a car. The Yard's pathologist bore him out. "She had been seated upright . . . after she died," he said. "Seated in a motor car?" asked Fabian. "Something less upholstered," the doctor suggested. Out went Fabian's order: check all trucks that used the road between...
...tight little band of political elite that Rhodes hoped would run the English-speaking world. Of the 2,831 selected since 1903, almost half have gone into law or education: 33 have headed colleges or universities, 44 have become judges. Medicine and science have taken some; one-Australian Pathologist Sir Howard Florey-shared a Nobel Prize. In the U.S., the scholars have ranged from Author Christopher Morley to Commentator Elmer Davis to Dean Rusk, now head of the Rockefeller Foundation. But few have ever been elected to a major political office...
Stalin was dead, but his doctors' work was not yet done. It was necessary to prove that they had diagnosed his illness correctly and treated it properly. A pathologist sawed off the top of the dead dictator's skull and laid bare the brain To their infinite relief, the doctors saw "a large area of hemorrhage in the grey matter of the left hemisphere of the brain." This had destroyed vital functions of the brain." The brain arteries were hardened...
What saved Lewis from becoming a bore was his love for the American scene, and his self-perception. In an obituary he once composed for himself, he described Sinclair Lewis as "a cheerful pathologist, exposing the clichés and sentimentalities of his day"-and then added: "It is evident that Mr. Lewis smote . . . sentimentality because he knew himself to be, at heart, a sentimentalist...