Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Damaged Brain. Last week California's Governor Goodwin Knight received an extraordinary letter from Billy Rupp's 25-year-old sister, a senior at the University of California...
...convulsions when he was a tiny child. The spasms were so violent that it took both my parents to hold him while they gave him hot baths to ease the tension. The results of this condition were discovered when electroencephalographic tests were made recently: the area of the brain was damaged which controls the inhibition animal impulses. A child with this handicap would have had difficulty adjusting to a favorable environment. But it is hard for anyone who has had the blessing of a loving family to realize the nightmare Billy and I lived...
...There were the usual fenced-off views . . . and each time as we obediently halted to look, we met the same happy couple, simple tourists like ourselves, but with movie camera attached. Roaring into the parking spot, they slammed to a halt, leaped out, and whirrilling like some great electronic brain, focused their mechanical eye . . . Then, whoosh!− into the car and off, one driving alone with an eye for the next stop, the other busily twiddling gadgets and sorting film. . . Granted that picture-taking is fun and that pictures are nice . . . good heavens! Let us remember to look around...
More Important: Influence. Far more important than White's espionage activity was his influence on policy. White became the No. 1 brain at the command of Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. Although he hated rich men, White used his old flattery plan on Morgenthau, would often tell him: "Let your instincts be your guide, Mr. Secretary; your instincts are usually pretty good." Morgenthau, who has 900 volumes of diaries about his Washington work, has steadfastly refused to talk about his late assistant...
Baron also emphasized the intellectual contributions of his race. He said, "Jewish pioneers of the brain such as Philo, Spinoza, and Einstein, were just as important as the pioneers of brawn who brought material advancement with them wherever they wandered...