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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...height, on her back, and removed all her dressing which might in any way impede the operation, I made an incision . . . nine inches in length . . . extending into the cavity of the abdomen . . . The tumor then appeared full in view, but was so large that we could not take it away entire . . . We cut open the tumor [and] took out fifteen pounds of a dirty, gelatinous substance. After which we cut through the Fallopian tube, and extracted the sack, which weighed seven pounds and a half . . . The operation was completed in about 25 minutes. We then turned her upon her left...
With less culinary than mathematical skill, the researchers could not make the stuff into a palatable meal. Even a laboratory dog was reluctant to put the mess away. The only conclusion: a computer could live cheaper than a human because it has no taste buds...
Mortimer wants products with the widest popular appeal, shies away from the specialized or offbeat food. At General Foods, this policy has resulted in a pretax profit of 10? on sales v. 6.8? for the No. 3 processor, Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn, Royal desserts, etc.), but well below the 14.8? of Campbell Soup, the No. 2 company. Overall, General Foods profits have risen from $28 million in 1954, when Mortimer took over, to an estimated $60 million this year. But Mortimer is still not satisfied with some of his products, notably the Gourmet line, intends to make some changes. Says...
James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann. A massive, definitive biography, which details Joyce's quirks without chipping away his greatness...
...original. At a time when the West is in vital need of specific policies and concrete leadership, he is playing the role of Scheherazade, spinning fanciful words in the hope that if the West can only keep talking long enough the essential problems will be somehow eroded away in a new spirit of Geneva, or Camp David, or perhaps Kabul. Khrushchev's memory, however, is likely to be better than that of the Sultan Schahriar...