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...slept for two years, offered $10,000 to anyone who would restore his ability to sleep normally (TIME, March 9). In Hungary there is a woman of 80 who says she has been continuously awake since 1911. Such people are either lying or they do not realize that they doze off while "resting." The chief physiological result of going without sleep is exhaustion, and utter exhaustion causes death. Dogs have been kept awake until they died. The best authentic record is that of a man who went 231 hours-about 9½ days-with almost no sleep.* Loss of sleep...
...York City's Harlem, white Promoter-Preacher-Spiritualist Don Platt used an old candy store for a church and got three Negroes robed in white cotton over their street clothes to go into a doze on three cots set up before an improvised altar. He called it a "trance marathon." invited newshawks to ask the subjects what they saw in the spirit world. Subject John Epps reported that "George Washington says the New Deal is all right except for so much taxin' of the people. He's in favor of changin' the Constitution in favor...
...Midsummer Night's Dream (Warner). A year ago Director Max Reinhardt took his famed stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the Hollywood Bowl. Its reception there impressed upon Cineman Jack Warner a fact long familiar to stage impresarios: although most people may doze through his plays, they will pay well to see William Shakespeare performed. With what the cinema industry immediately hailed as an unparalleled display of courage, optimism, and esthetic vision, Producer Warner thereupon started work...
...stack of ledgers and account books. In the handsome, high-ceilinged courtroom, with only a scattering of typical courtroom loungers looking on, Mr. Mellon sat each day at the counsel table beside Lawyer Hogan. Mostly he seemed bored and restless, glancing often at his chainless watch, appearing to doze off in the late afternoons. Once a young bailiff caught him smoking one of his pencil-thin cigars in the courtroom during recess...
...unmitigated nuisance in persecuting those that take ideas for granted, that inherit ideas, and have none of their own. In a swiftly changing world, where no principles, no matter how sacred, go unchallenged, where everything is wide awake and stirring, Yale can not be allowed to doze. Yale student thought must be in the very front rank and not half a century behind. --The Yale Daily News...