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When sensitive electrodes are fastened to the head, they pick up tiny electrical impulses from the brain. These impulses can be amplified, measured and traced to specific nerve cells. The man who thus tuned in on the brain was Dr. Edgar Douglas Adrian, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who won a Nobel physiology prize for his discovery in 1932. Last week Dr. Adrian reported his progress in this scientific eavesdropping. The messages he has picked up from the brain, he told an audience of distinguished scientists in the second Pilgrim Trust Lecture in Washing ton, have so far been vague...
Last week, six days after his Government broke with the Axis (TIME, Feb. 7), Argentine Ambassador Adrian Escobar arrived in Washington. His reception was the coldest the U.S. has given any high Latin American diplomat since the beginning of the Good Neighbor Policy. Reason: Argentina's authoritarian Government still had to show genuine friendship for the U.S., clean out its anti-democratic elements (President Ramirez prevailed upon three notably pro-Nazi Cabinet members to withdraw their resignations...
...pass defense, the Giants smothered the Redskins 31-7. Gamblers made the Giants 8-5 favorites in the playoff for the right to meet Chicago's Bears this Sunday for the National Football League Championship. But the odds ignored a bass-voiced 29-year-old Texan named Samuel Adrian Baugh...
...Adrian Conan Doyle, younger son of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, himself set pen to paper in an attempt to settle the aging argument about the identity of Sherlock's prototype. To the London Daily Telegraph he wrote: "The fact is my father, himself, was Sherlock Holmes. It was true that Sir Arthur was absentminded and often put on one brown shoe and one black shoe, but like Sherlock Holmes the accuracy of my father's deductions was startling...
Denis Percy Stewart Conan Doyle, brother of Adrian, announced in Los Angeles that he would soon return to England, stand for election to Parliament. A spiritualist like his father, Denis also made his periodical report that he.was still chatting with Sir Arthur from time to time...