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...meningococcus had passed from the brain covering into the brain itself. Some memory cells may have been destroyed; certainly many were damaged, especially in Carolyn's speech center. When her doctor, William Ranson, asked her how old she was, she answered, "Fourteen." She later explained: "I'd mean to say one thing but say something else, even though I knew I was saying it wrong...
...Fourteen men, two women and one couple have been on TIME's cover in the past four months. How many can you identify by these excerpts from the cover stories about them...
...first, a great many spectators had been yelling in fun, apparently in the belief that they were watching a publicity stunt for the Boston showing of "Fourteen Hours," a motion picture based on a death leap from Manhattan's Gotham Hotel. But as time passed, an excited, nervous tension seemed to build up among the craning throng. "Jump!" they yelled. The voices in the street kept on for one hour and 35 minutes. For one hour and 35 minutes people peering from a window of the room nearest the boy fought against the crowd in a kind of insane...
Three hundred and fourteen years after John Harvard came to the New World from Southwark, England in 1637, another Englishman has come from the little British town to Boston. The reverend Mr. Colin Cuttell, Industrial Missioner from the Diocese of Southwark, left yesterday for Canada after spending almost a month in and around Cambridge...
...Fourteen consecutive wins shot the Chicago White Sox to the top of the American League at the end of May. This feat has overshadowed a number of other surprises of the first quarter of the major league baseball season...