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...Shiner's grave occurs a scene to raise a lump in the gullet of the steeliest projection machine. Snowy potters about, planting flowers, leaving a cross and "a glass dome, full of waxen flowers and fruit, with a marble scroll curling through the flowers, and SHINER, in fine long letters cut in it." He takes pictures of the grave, "and a heat of grief bit into him." He looks up, past "doves flying white in the blue," and prays, "Oy, you want to watch out. There ain't all that many of 'em. Please. Look after...
...waters off their southern coast, Korean fishermen last week snared a giant sea turtle-5 ft. long, perhaps 1,000 years old. They poured three crocks of wine down its gullet, sent it off to Seoul...
...Raymond had recommended a thorough bronchoscopy as soon as Sandy was six months old. The examination, at Philadelphia's Chevalier Jackson Clinic, showed a rare malformation: the aorta (great artery) leading up from the heart normally passes in front of the esophagus (gullet) and trachea (windpipe). Sandy's aorta was divided and formed a ring around the two tubes. When food distended the gullet, the windpipe was squeezed...
...Graton also goes west for his work--out to Yellowstone National Park and the geyser country. Last summer he wired up a cable with six electric thermometers, all recording simultaneously on a remote sheet of graph paper. He carried the device all over Yellowstone, and lowered it down the gullet of every geyser he could find...
...attracted national notice, and 1939 saw the notorious gold-fish-eating craze start here to sweep the country within a few weeks. Ingenious Irving M. Clark '41 captured undisputed Cambridge laurels by gulping 26 fish and craftily disqualifying an illegitimate M.I.T. entry who slipped 42 undersized creatures down his gullet...