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Urling, bow; Christensen, 2; Casson, 3; Weber (C), 4; Semple, 5; Smith, 6; Monkman, 7; Fonda, stroke; McGuire, coxswain...
...subjects went so deep asleep that Hypnotist Peter Casson, in the flesh, had to wake them up. As a result of this private test, BBC decided to ban hypnotists from telecasting, pending further experiment. (One wag promptly suggested that there was no danger of British listeners being hypnotized to sleep; the somnolent BBC needed hypnotists to keep them awake.) "My goodness," said one BBC official, "think what would happen if everybody had a television set-as everybody will shortly-and a Hitler sort of fellow started working on them...
...case in point: a smallpox outbreak in Seattle (TIME, April 8), touched off by a soldier just back from Japan. Last week San Francisco's Director of Public Health, Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, cried out that the danger of airborne epidemics is real and imminent...
...Francisco, where many hospital staff members fell sick. Health Officer Jacob Casson Geiger asked for a $7,500 appropriation to hire substitutes, ordered postponement of all operations except for emergencies...
...DISCOVERY OF MAN-Stanley Casson-Harper ($3). In this quietly excellent history of anthropology and archeology, Stanley Casson also traces the blinding strength of pride & prejudice, the slow development of man's ability to look at himself and his past detachedly...