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Cried an indignant mother in the next issue of the Lancet: "I should also like to know how Dr. McCluskie deals with the infant who . . . when propped up in a pram . . . and enjoined to stay awake . . . proceeds to fall asleep in the most uncomfortable position possible, in spite of having slept 14 hours the previous night and three hours that same morning...
...Lying asleep, dreaming sweet dreams of a forthcoming triumph in the afternoon, 300 loyal sons of old Nassau were awakened smartly at 7:30 o'clock Saturday morning by the strains of reveille and Harvardiana pouring sweetly and melodiously over the Tigertown campus...
George White, 53, had seen better days. In San Diego, the onetime millionaire producer of high-priced Broadway revues (the Scandals) got a one-year prison term and $600 fine for hit-&-run driving. He had been asleep at the wheel, he said, when his car killed a honeymoon couple a month ago. The fine was paid by an exmarine, who said he was doing it because the showman had sent him parcels in a Jap prison camp. White said his own bankroll was only...
...succession of station platforms demanding cucumbers for his American comrade, and he eventually got them too, heaven only knows how. The railroad man sang the bass part to the entire Easter Mass in church Slavonic, and was half way through it a second time before he fell blissfully asleep. And then there was the offensive individual from the other end of the car, who apparently felt that he was not getting his just share of attention and fired two shots from a pistol through the door of the compartment into the corridor. He was removed at the next stop...
...come home again until 4. He got thinner and thinner. One night he woke me up and started to tell me that he'd picked up a tip in a bar that he thought would break that whole thing. But I guess I fell asleep and didn't hear...