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...Edward Mellanby, 54-year-old secretary of Britain's Medical Research Council, is famed for his wit, his wife Lady May (Britain's outstanding authority on tooth decay) and his work on nutrition and pneumonia. In The Lancet last week, Sir Edward discussed "The State and Medical Research," told of the "first recorded experiment in medical science by a king himself," an experiment remarkably similar in technique to work done by scientists on guinea pigs today. Said Sir Edward: "Frederick the Second. Emperor of the Romans, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, known as Stupor Mundi, the Wonder...
...control, to the plaintive gasp of the last radio operator calling into a void, the story and production had grip. But the only explanation for the badly panicked thousands-who evidently had neither given themselves the pleasure of familiarizing themselves with Wells's famous book nor had the wit to confirm or deny the catastrophe by dialing another station-is that recent concern over a possible European Armageddon has badly spooked the U. S. public...
...wit, Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Kentucky, New York, Rhode Island, New Jersey...
...authors, Winifred Watson, a St. Paul public-school teacher, and Julius M. Nolte of University of Minnesota, acted on the advice of Ralph Waldo Emerson to "smuggle" into grammar teaching "a little contraband wit, fancy, imagination, thought." Their defense for trying to teach grammar painlessly: modern children not only find grammar study dull but arrive in high school and college knowing wretchedly little about...
Readers of one masterpiece, The Education of Henry Adams, know how enigmatic he seems in his autobiography. But readers of his letters get a clearer picture of his wit, the range of his interests, the depths of his despondency. Eight years ago a 552-page collection of them carried his story up to 1892. Last week another collection of 672 pages carried it to his death...