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Trial Run. In Vienna, Gustav Haubert, 40, asked the judge to let him spend his three-month sentence on an especially hard cot, added: "Also reduce my meals to the barest minimum. I have decided to go into a monastery after I leave jail, and I want to get in training...
...Abbott (who boards her ferocious bull terrier, Butcher Boy, because Harry Guggenheim will not allow him in the house), Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, Katharine Cornell and her husband Producer Guthrie McClintic, Publisher Bennett Cerf and his wife, Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh (who last time brought his own camping cot because he wanted to sleep outdoors), and occasionally, her attractive older sister Elinor, who once played in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle. With her guests Publisher Patterson rarely talks about herself, has a reporter's knack of drawing them out with penetrating questions while she stays...
...even shocked, after this reception, to be taken into another room by a very charming young lady, told to remove my coat and to lie down on a cot. Another young lady came to the bed and started to question me further about my medical past. At this point my ego had been inflated to the extreme, and I took this woman into my confidence and explained that they really didn't have to go to all this effort, that I intended to renew my subscription anyway...
...hair very short; she switched at last to green fatigues, changing sometimes to a paratrooper's trousers and shirt. She had her own dugout with silk sheets, made from parachutes by one of General de Castries' orderlies, but more often she would sleep on a cot beside the wounded. Often, during the bitter days, she would take the last messages of the dying. "I am glad I am trapped," she once told GHQ. "I am proud to be here." Only once did she request a favor: she wanted new underwear, cosmetics and some clean blouses. But her package...
...develop a scanning machine that shows, with a high degree of accuracy, not only whether a brain tumor is present but, if so, precisely where it is. Dr. Sweet gave Holly an injection of radioactive arsenic, which has an affinity for tumors. An hour later she lay on a cot with her head between two scintillation counters to which scanning mechanisms were attached. Soon, as the counters picked up the gamma rays, the robot pens showed that the arsenic had concentrated in one part of the lower forebrain. This showed that Holly did indeed have a tumor. Another scan showed...