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...plumping her down at a spinning wheel and threatening a thrashing if she stirred from it, and Martha Cory, a hearty matron who had rashly asserted she didn't believe in witches. ("Look!" screamed one of the girls at church service, "there sits Goody Cory on the beam, suckling a yellow bird betwixt her fingers...
High Speed. The air was filled with an electric whine. On the white-sheeted table, the patient could hear nothing else. He could see nothing except the grey, perforated wallboard beyond his feet. But coursing through his neck, in invisible bursts 180 times a second, was a beam of X rays whipped up by the 25 million volts to a speed almost exactly equal to that of light. The beam was aimed at the center of the cancer...
...Bryant, 58, who gave up his own boat six years ago, could afford to beam at this stunt; today's showboat skipper can usually count the house by counting the hoots. For eleven weeks, St. Louis playgoers had gone down to the Goldenrod's mooring by the cobblestoned levee and paid 75? a head to sass the actors in his hokum-logged version of Hamlet. Last week, on his way home from a lecture tour, Bryant tarried in St. Louis for five days to give the classic a fillip: his own appearance in the double role of Polonius...
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...world's best and most influential moderns-Los Angeles Architect Richard Joseph Neutra The broad, glassy brows of Neutra's buildings (and those of such onetime Neutra apprentices as Gregory Ain, Raphael bonano and Harwell Harris) line the Pacific shore, nestle in the canyons and beam down from a hundred hilltops. After 23 years in the neighborhood, 57-year-old Vienna-born Richard Neutra has gone a long way toward making the place one of the hotbeds of the U.S. modern...