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Scientists have long known that there are electrical potentials in the brain, charted the brain waves as wavy lines with amplifiers and oscillographs. Iowa State's Professor Lee Edward Travis and Co-worker Abraham Gottlober heard a colleague from Harvard declare that every brain had its electric individuality. Investigating, they made several series of oscillograms of the brain waves of 44 healthy students. Since the waves change in character according to the physical well-being of the body and the activity of the mind, Travis & Gottlober tried to get records under uniform conditions by having the subjects lie down...
Your dramatization on the air of the story of Grace Bedell and Abraham Lincoln was splendid, a vivid and fitting tribute to the kindliness of that great man and a touching finale to the quiet drama of my grandmother's life...
...suddenly became aware that the implications of her note might "hurt his feelings." To add a bit of possible salve she accordingly told the President that the "rail fence around your picture looks real pretty." This referred to the pictorial fence bordering the campaign pictures of Hannibal Hamlin and Abraham Lincoln...
...shares affected. Among the holdouts was a Wall Streeter named Joseph Keller, who figured that if back dividends were to be paid at all he was entitled to hard cash, $21.25 on each of his 500 Class A shares. Hiring a smart Manhattan lawyer named Abraham L. Pomerantz, he filed suit in Delaware, where Wilson & Co. was incorporated, seeking full cash payment of back dividends for all holdout stock...
Robert E. Wernick '38; Frank C. Wheelock, Jr. '39; William A. Whitcraft, Jr. '39; Frank S. White, Jr. '39; Abraham D. Whitman '37; John W. Whittlesey '37; Sumner Willard '37; Robert A. Williams '37; Samuel D. Winisky '38; Donald T. Wood '37; Norman Zamcheck '39; Morris Zief...