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...Chinese Prime Minister is an urbane liar of a play. In a triumph of style over substance, it serves its mental hash like Beluga caviar, pours its intellectual eyewash like Dom Pérignon. This sleight-of-hand artistry succeeds for two reasons. Playwright Enid Bagnold loves the English language with rare fidelity, and in the present semi-illiterate state of the U.S. stage, pure English makes an irresistible lover for an audience. Equally indispensable is an actress who can do no wrong from first entrance to final curtain. Margaret Leighton's eyes are wounds of inner pain...
...Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, 73, is almost as eager as was Captain Ahab to sink a harpoon into the mightiest leviathan of the deep, but for a different reason: he wants to record its electrocardiogram. Dr. White has logged the ECG of a small (only 1¼ ton) Beluga whale in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952), but has been thwarted in efforts to get his electrodes into the bigger grey whale off California. Last week he was within a heartbeat of an equally desirable prize, and missed by a fluke...
...Paul Dudley White, 69, is one of the world's most eminent heart specialists. In the pursuit of his notable career he has taken electrocardiograms of circus elephants, and once, in the icy waters off the coast of Alaska, he even recorded the heartbeat of a beluga whale by means of an electrocardiograph wired to a pair of brass-tipped harpoons (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952). Since the whale was small as well as in an understandable state of excitement, Dr. White was not fully satisfied with the result. He still yearns to record the throb of a heart...
...Elephant and the Whale." It included notes on the slow heartbeats and long electrocardiograph waves of nine circus elephants, and an account of Dr. White's whale hunt off Alaska last summer when he used harpoons as electrodes to get EKG readings of a wild, white (beluga) whale (TIME...
They found what they were looking for in the shallows of Nushagak Bay-a small (one-ton) beluga whale, come in to feed on salmon. It was not the first whale which had shied away from their "stethoscope": in earlier efforts the hunters had been unsuccessful. This time a husky cannery worker got a good grip on the patient : he drove home a pair of brass-headed harpoons wired to a portable electrocardiograph...