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...almost every murder trial, someone raises the question: is the defendant sane? Drs. Cohen & Coffin think it might be easy to tell after a look at the crime itself; if it conforms closely to the psychotic pattern, the murderer is probably insane. If such tests became common, could a sane murderer pass himself off as a crazy man by deliberately mimicking the psychotic pattern? Not likely, think Cohen & Coffin: a murderer in his right mind has a certain hesitancy about carving up his female relatives in the town square at high noon...
...choosing his victim, say Drs. Cohen & Coffin, the psychotic generally stays close to home: his wife, mother, sister or in-laws are favorites. The murder is often premeditated (one psychotic prepared again & again to kill his girl, but could not bring himself to do it when she was in a happy frame of mind; finally one night, when she was sad, he got it over with). But the crime is seldom shrewdly planned; many psychotic murderers operate in broad daylight, in public places, using any weapon that happens to come to hand. Another characteristic clue left by the mad killer...
Freezing the body kills a man. But freezing a gangrenous leg may save a man's life. When this discovery was first announced five years ago-by Drs. Lyman W. Grossman and Frederick M. Allen of New York City-many a medico was shocked. But the two doctors persisted in their chilling experiments. Last week they reported progress in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...Journal of Comparative Psychology, Drs. J. C. R. Licklider and M. E. Bunch describe a revealing experiment on rats (which are very like people in many ways). The problem was to find out how rats react to losing sleep. Rats ordinarily sleep 12 to 15 hours a day. When really sleepy, they will bed down on anything. Bright lights and loud noises do not stop them from trying...
...Grant Study was set up in 1938 for the purpose of studying "normal" and successful students, Drs. Clark W. Heath and John P. Monks, physicians to the Grant Study, explained yesterday...