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...cloud-hung peak, no yawning gorge, no waterfall's white and thundering precipice can astound the eye like New York. No traveler is ever prepared for it. The Big City is the work...
This recipe, with variations, seems to be the starting point of many a medical marvel-the transplantation of organs, resuscitation of the dead, the life-prolonging serum "ACS"-with which Russian physicians bemuse their foreign colleagues and astound the public (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944). Last week the discoverer of ACS ("anti-reticular cytotoxic serum") presented his notions and discoveries in the first English translation of his book The Prolongation of Life.* He also granted his first interview to the foreign press...
...Astounding Aquarius. The biggest astrological news was that the world was moving out of the brawling, nationalistic age of Pisces (the fish) and into the new, 2,156-year-cycle of Aquarius (the water-bearer). That meant a new era of "world brotherhood, flight and ether." ("We'll be weekending on the planets.") Said one astrologer: "It is here ... the developments will astound the world." Said another: "We are going to have rule by the masses...
...classrooms we find that Bernie (pronounce it any way yo-all want to) Bienvenu is never unprepared. It may have taken 20 minutes of mental hand-springs on his part but he did astound the class, proving that "bags without handles are no good." The class laughed, but Bernie knew he had not "missed the point" and was therefore happy. Note also the breathless response which this brought up from New Jersey...
...ignored the classic repertory with a persistence that drove critics to fury. He liked to offer his own grand fantasia on Yankee Doodle, playing with a rapt expression ''as though," remarked one critic, "he were wrestling with the inward spasms of a Pythian frenzy." He liked to astound his audiences by performing on all four strings at once, a trick he managed with the aid of a special flat-topped bridge...