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Victor. Only national figure to emerge from the California election was Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Fortnight ago the ex-sports writer landed in Los Angeles and began sending out appalled columns: "This community lives under ether and utters weird cries in its waking dreams." Westbrook Pegler was alarmed, not because a proposed Ham & Eggs amendment to the State Constitution promised $30 every Thursday to retired citizens over 50 years of age, not because it would have compelled the Governor to name a leader of Ham & Eggs to administer the act, not because it would set up a State bank system with...
...French text will be provided by Marcel Francon, instructor in Romance Languages; and the Italian, by Charles R. D. Miller '23, instructor in German. Professor Cross himself will prepare the German text. Their words will be shot into the ether via WRUL's new directional antenna, part of the equipment which makes the station one of the strongest shortwave units in the country...
...Ether. Besides bombing Berlin with pamphlets, Britain's broadcasting stations bombarded Germany with phonograph transcriptions of Prime Minister Chamberlain's voice. Excerpts...
...Hospital is to most hospital romances what the Mayo Clinic is to an osteopath. Not even during the recent epidemic of doctors' and nurses' memoirs has a book smelled so strongly of ether and carbolic. Above all, Kenneth Fearing is a specialist in diagnosing hospital life as experienced by the patient-its atmosphere of muffled crises, sterilized optimism, morbid freshness, of surrealist panic as viewed through an anesthetic mask...
Promptly Poet Karinthy's doctor wife, Aranka, hustled him off to the Stockholm clinic of Dr. Herbert Olivecrona, a disciple of Yale's famed Neurologist Harvey Gushing. Since surgeons usually use local anesthetics for brain operations (ether may congest brain blood vessels), Poet Karinthy remained acutely aware of everything that happened to him. Last year, he published the first patient's-eye-view account of a brain operation in medical history. This week the English translation of Karinthy's remarkable book appeared...