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...then to destroy it. Two brief classroom sequences establish him as an orderly and pompous martinet. In both scenes, Janning strides into the room, sits down and blows his nose into a carefully folded handkerchief as if the whole process were a ritual allowed no deviation from a prescribed pattern...
...brilliant 17-year-old Massachusetts boy who entered M.I.T. last fall from his high school junior class. He is one of 20 scholarship winners who "have shown an ability to depart from the traditional academic pattern...
...congenital heart defects and the other half heart disease acquired later in life. They knew that myriads of tiny creases called axial tri-radii are formed in the palm during the first four or five months of fetal development and, like fingerprints, remain unchanged for life. (These intricate patterns bear no relationship to the impermanent palm lines gypsies call heart, head and life lines.) What the doctors suspected was that disturbances that cause congenital heart defects would be reflected in a unique palm pattern...
They were right. In the A.M.A. Journal, the research trio reported that the tri-radial crosshatches of congenital heart cases were etched nearer the center of their palms twice as often as those who had developed heart disease later. The pattern also tended to be more disorganized in the hands of congenital heart patients-a possible result of the same mysterious mechanisms that cause abnormalities to develop in the fetus...
Precise to a Fault. Combing the boards' appraisals, Peberdy found a consistent pattern among the toothbrushed men: the boards in general ruled them to be "too limited in imagination, too little appreciative of the views of others, [liable to] create rather than disperse interpersonal tensions. Like their mustaches, so tended these men: faintly rebellious, energetic but prickly, precise to a fault, disciplining to near ruthlessness and disciplined to near self-mutilation." Good Soldier Peberdy reassuringly hastened to add that in the selection of officer candidates "the cut of a man's mustache could of course never...