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...London last week six BBC staffers sat in a small, dark room and intently watched a television screen. From the screen stared the serious face of a young man; he was talking quietly. Suddenly one man in the audience dropped his head on his chest, fast asleep. Soon three others were asleep...
...subjects went so deep asleep that Hypnotist Peter Casson, in the flesh, had to wake them up. As a result of this private test, BBC decided to ban hypnotists from telecasting, pending further experiment. (One wag promptly suggested that there was no danger of British listeners being hypnotized to sleep; the somnolent BBC needed hypnotists to keep them awake.) "My goodness," said one BBC official, "think what would happen if everybody had a television set-as everybody will shortly-and a Hitler sort of fellow started working on them...
...Russian writer Turgenev, entertaining a visitor one day in 1855, kept the conversation in whispers for fear of waking Count Tolstoy, who was asleep in the next room. "He's like this all the time," Turgenev explained. "He has come from his battery at Sevastopol, is staying with me, and has gone off on a tangent. Sprees, gypsies, and cards every night; then he sleeps like the dead until two o'clock...
Lullaby. In Kansas City, police, summoned by irate neighbors kept awake by a parked car's blaring radio, rushed to the car. found Owner Waldo Wilson sound asleep inside...
...mental tailspin, and confusing thoughts are shown arising from his brain. [He] is relaxing uncomfortably in an impossible reclining attitude. His le:s are crossed and there is a banana peel under one foot, which he seems likely to slip on when he gets up. An Irish setter is asleep on the floor...