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Bassoon-playing gave him the lungs of a cross-country runner, and later, at Baylor University, he made the track team. In those days Paul was an English major. He lived on 50? a day-his parents could not afford to send him more. Summers he peddled Wear-Ever cooking utensils in north Texas towns...
Pigeons for Dinner. Back at Baylor, Paul switched to science courses, got a job as fieldman for a biological supply company. ("I was always turning over rocks for scorpions, and the sight of a snake gladdened my heart.") More than once, Paul dined on pigeons caught on his boardinghouse roof, and when a course in histology required him to provide microscopic slides of guinea-pig tissue, he saw no reason to throw away the remains of the animals. He would cook and eat them. "If it breathed, it had protein, and if it had protein...
...ranks of the pros) took on the Cleveland Browns in a preseason football game and splattered the turf of Chicago's Soldier Field with the remnants of the pro champions. With Notre Dame's Ralph Guglielmi calling the shots (and pitching passes with midseason accuracy), with Baylor's L. G. ("Long Gone") Dupre slipping like quicksilver through the Brown secondary, and with Ohio State's tiny (139 lbs.) Tad Weed booting precise placements, the collegians outplayed the pros in every department...
...Boss. It was at 6:33 p.m. on Friday, when many people would normally be starting a weekend trip, that Baylor University's Dean Stanley Olson was called to the phone in the Doctors' Club dining room of Texas Medical Center and got the flash: Beaumont was devastated. All he had known in advance was that the test would be within a week of an agreed date. He at once ordered the Baylor switchboard to send out the alert. But here came the first snag. The Houston Surgical Society was having a meeting in an inn near...
When doctors and civil-defense men pored over reports last week, the Houston-Beaumont test was rated a great and instructive success. Said Baylor's Dean Olson: "It taught our students more about the fundamental philosophy of handling mass casualties than they could have gotten from any other way I know of ... I haven't the faintest idea of how to handle the mass of casualties that could face us in the hydrogen age. But after this test, I know better now how to deal with 250 casualties in six hours. I'm perfectly willing to talk...