Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supposed to be playing Grieg, while the conductor is concentrating on Tchaikovsky and the orchestra is working on Roll Out the Barrel; a second concerto, written by Mozart's father Leopold for alpenhorn and played on two lengths of garden hose by Britain's distinguished Hornist Dennis Brain; a set of variations for wheezy winds, featuring Hoffnung himself playing a tuba so big that it runs on wheels and requires built-in bellows to supply enough wind...
...Dulles," he says, "becomes more incredible by the day." Worthy is also incensed over the unbalanced and overly rosy American propaganda about integration which is given out abroad by officially sponsored American Negroes, who are looked upon by other Negroes as "either streamlined Uncle Toms or victims of brain-washing...
Died. Murray W. Garsson, 67, sometime millionaire munitions maker and financier, who was convicted in 1947 in a bribery and conspiracy scandal involving Government war contracts, served 19 months in prison (1949-51), and ended his days homeless, borrowing small sums from his doctor for barbiturates; of a brain hemorrhage; in New York City. At war's end Garsson and his brother Henry, a consulting engineer, pasted together a paper empire (once valued at $78 million) of contracts for shells, mortars and aircraft parts, worked with lavish expense accounts through the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Kentucky...
...sewing a rubber well to the auricle so that he could open the chamber and work inside it with his fingers and suture needle, but he was still operating blindly by feel in a puddle of pulsing blood. The problem was that, at normal body temperature, the brain suffers irreparable damage if deprived of blood for more than about four minutes. But if the body's temperature is lowered, its tissues need less blood, and the brain can survive without damage for twice the normal time. Bailey wondered whether by chilling the patient (hypothermia) he could reduce the body...
Early heart-lung designers, starting with Gibbon, tried oxygenation by "filming" the blood, i.e., letting it run thin over a flat surface. They wanted to avoid bubbling it because of the danger that some bubbles might be left in, and if these reached the brain, they could cause paralysis or death. Richard DeWall, a general practitioner from Anoka, Minn., went to work with Lillehei. Neophyte DeWall figured: Instead of dreading bubbles, why not put them to use? After all, the blood could be made to "film" around bubbles. He took the revolutionary step of pumping the patient's blood...