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...Patients whose lives are threatened by bleeding ulcers and who may need massive blood transfusions can be saved by a chilling technique worked out by the University of Minnesota's Department of Surgery, reported its chief, Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen. The patient swallows a balloon through which a frigid (23° F.) solution of alcohol and water is circulated. The chilling cuts down blood flow, and also the secretion of gastric juices to a negligible level so that they can no longer digest the stomach wall at the ulcer site. In ten patients it has taken an average...
...this Joke Generation subsist? How was its Life Source of gadgets purveyed? By the J and S book. The J and S Book, as it was affectionately known, was the catalog of the Johnson and Smith Company of Racine, Wisconsin. The Company ran intoi trouble in the frigid climate of the early 'Thirties, when people decided practical jokes were impractical. But there yet remain copies of the catalog, virtually unchanged since the pre-World War I days, which are now of unestimable value...
This is conceivably the only novel ever written in which a boy tries to seduce a girl in a recumbent church bell. The would-be lovers fail, but that is because the clapper gives off a frightful clang that scares them both frigid. All of this will come as no surprise to fans of British Novelist Iris Murdoch (The Sandcastle), a philosophy-teaching Oxford don and an intellectual pixy whose wit ends in tears, whose sentences are transparent while her meanings are opaque...
...viewers may find some of his other humorous inventions less familiar. He seems to think it is laugh-provoking to throw in a scene with Actress Farr tearfully explaining that the reason she cheats on her husband is that she is trying to find "real love," having been frigid all her life...
...Nixon seems to have forgotten that when he retreated from the University of San Marcos he went to the Catholic University and was there accorded a singularly frigid reception. Mr. Nixon, the State Department, and perhaps this nation as a whole seem to forget that behind the violent minority is a large and hostile majority. As the pro-American newspaper La Trinuna noted, opposition to the United States stems from the frustration and bitterness that United States attitudes have created among genuinely democratic groups friendly to the United States people...