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Lord Caradon of St. Cleer (formerly Sir Hugh Foot), LL.D., British representative to the U.N. His own life fully exemplifies the stirring words of Milton he loves to repeat, "Let not England forget her precedence in teaching, the nations how to live...
...made a lord, and must decide what name to take after it. am afraid," says he, "that use of 'the Baron Foot' might lead to references to 'the dead hand,' " and so he will reappear in the peerage as Baron Caradon of St. Cleer...
...last week, Michael had sneezed more than 150,000 times. His parents and doctors decided that the publicity and excitement resulting from setting the British sneezing record (the American record is probably held by a 13-year-old girl, Mary Margaret Cleer, who in 1936 sneezed for 57 days) was not helping Michael's recovery; they shipped him off to the country. His grandmother took him to a cold storage plant, where he sat in a room with the temperature at 18° below zero. When he came out, he was shivering, and sneezing...
...cures for sneezing which Mary Cleer was urged to try included wearing a "magnetic" letter pinned to her night dress, looking down the bridge of her nose at pieces of bright silk held close to the tip, clipping an electrified wire to her nose and toes, getting tattooed, taking snuff...
Last week when Mary Cleer went to Johns Hopkins Hospital, the great medical faculty there had never before treated or even seen a girl who sneezed so persistently. Johns Hopkins specialists began a new series of tests. A psychiatrist examined the girl and summoned her parents to analyze their mental and emotional makeups. Mary underwent fluoroscopy, blood testing, other examinations. A gynecologist also took her in charge, for the nasal and genital tissues are histologically related. The mucous membranes of the nose swell during sexual excitement. This well-known phenomenon gives rise to a theory that the noses of many...