Word: brains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time Ruth Steinhagen looked upon Eddie ("Cowboy") Waitkus with her large, glassy blue eyes, her brain bubbled with a strange, painful excitement.. That was out at Chicago's Wrigley Field near the end of the 1946 season when Eddie was playing first for the Cubs. Ruth fell hard. She stopped loving Movie Actor Alan Ladd, wrote off a passing outfielder and decided to do something big some day about Eddie, namely, kill...
...play the great Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C Sharp of Johann Sebastian Bach. Before the weekend was over, she had also played the rippling No. 6 in D Minor and the fugue of No. 7 in E Flat to complete the first eight of the 48 brain-and finger-cracking preludes and fugues-two in each of the 24 keys-that constitute the musician's bible and byword: Bach's great Wohltemperirtes Clavier (Well-Tempered Clavier...
Down the ball from the mice and monkeys is a room full of moth pupas, with their brains cut out. The pupa is the animal inside a cocoon; and Assistant Professor Carroll M. Williams has found that it will live indefinitely but not grow when its brain is removed. He has kept pupas for months in animated suspension and then put their brains back, and they started growing where they left...
More than 50 Fellows are now teaching in colleges and universities, and others hold industrial and government positions. They have published over 50 books and hundreds of technical papers: former members have developed synthetic quinine and developed "fibrin film" for use in brain operations...
...book reviews continue on their consistent good level again this month. Leonard Friedman's criticism of Cybernetics makes a well-put case for work in the social sciences against the mechanical brain. Checking the balance sheet, the current issut is a better than average Advocate...