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...When he was a five-year-old boy in Joplin, Mo., William Edward Cook was pushed out into the world on his own; his ne'er-do-well father abandoned him in a deserted mine cave. Because he had a deformed right eyelid nobody wanted to adopt him. By the time Billy was 21 he had served time in both Missouri reform schools and the state penitentiary, had the words H-A-R-D L-U-C-K tattooed on the fingers of his left hand and had resolved to "live by the gun." During a murderous...
...drifted into suicidal depression. But for all of them the treatment was the same. Strapped to an operating table, they got three quick jolts of electricity-enough to start violent, involuntary convulsions before they lapsed into anesthetic coma. Next a thin, icepick-like leucotome was inserted under each eyelid, hammered home through the eye socket and into the brain. Carefully manipulating the two icepicks, the doctor severed the connection between thalamus and frontal lobes in the patient's brain. The entire operation took only ten minutes...
...stars of the tests were rabbits, the cigarette makers' favorite subjects for irritation experiments. Philip Morris, for example, bubbled smoke of different brands of cigarettes through water, then dripped the solution on to a rabbit's eyelids. It claimed Philip Morris smoke produced less irritation. Rivals made more direct tests. They developed smoking machines and eyecups to blow smoke smack against the rabbit's eyelid, claimed they found no measurable differences in brands. To measure the amount of swelling caused by protective fluids rushing into the smoke-filled eyes,* testers even trimmed off the upper lids, weighed...
...chunky owner of the voice, Edwin L. Baron, "master hypnotist," padded softly among the entranced women. When an eyelid fluttered, he put his hand on the sleeper's forehead, murmuring his message again. "Now I will count to three and you will wake up," he said briskly. With yawns and stretches, they woke. The lesson had lasted half an hour...
...well Joplin, Mo. smelter worker, abandoned the boy and his seven brothers & sisters in a deserted mine cave. After the authorities discovered them there, most of them found foster parents, but only "the county" would take William, a small, ugly child with a deformed right eyelid. William bit like a caged wildcat at the institutional hand that...