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Elliott and Sherover think the cerebrograph can be used to teach multiplication tables, chemical formulas, Morse code, logarithms, vocabularies. Eventually Sherover hopes to market his invention. "After all," says he, "a man spends one-third of his time asleep. This machine will add years to your life...
Pillow Mike. Sherover revived his interest in the cerebrograph when his eight-year-old son had to memorize Hood's The Song of the Shirt for school. After repeating it aloud patiently as his son fell asleep, Sherover was delighted next day to hear the boy babble the poem without a slip. Thus Sherover confirmed what many psychologists had long believed: a dozing person is often more receptive to suggestion than, a wide-awake...
...three hours, each of the 40 snoozed in two sections of his laboratory (he could tell they were really asleep by means of an electroencephalograph, a brain machine with electrodes and straps reminiscent of electric chairs). Twenty students slept undisturbed; while the other 20 slept, records repeated the word list 30 times at intervals...
...views tonight's competition as a warm-up for some of the better Varsity personnel. And he realizes the condition his athletes may be in as a result of exams. "I only hope they don't fall asleep out there tomorrow night," he said yesterday...
...brother . . . defy the laws of gravity! . . ." Shortly before the venture folded, Peck took a job ushering tourists around Rockefeller Center, where his performances were no more outstanding. Until he learned better, he innocently assured other eager outlanders that Brooklyn was a part of New Jersey. He once fell asleep in a box while his charges outstayed (by an outrageous 20 minutes) their free glimpse of a Radio City show...