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The first signs of illness that the Senator noted, last April, were pains in his legs. In May he had severe pain in his left hip. Four days of examinations and tests in the Army's Walter Reed General Hospital did not show definitely what was wrong, but by...
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Chambered Nautilus
Transferred into Company G at Schofield Barracks in Honolulu, Prew is instantly informed by Captain Dana ("Dynamite") Holmes that he cannot go his own way. Captain Holmes, a boxing fanatic who wants his company to win the regimental championship, knows that Prew is a first-class middleweight, and insists that...
They honored Mal Holmes at Harvard night at the Pops, and the Class tendered ovation after ovation for the Boston Orchestra--but the biggest cheer of the night came when classmate Johnny Green, famous songwriter and currently musical director of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, took over from regular conductor Arthur Fiedler...
In real 3-D, the problems are not so much esthetic as technical, scientific and medical. The object of all good stereoscopy is the fulfillment of the 26th Theorem of Euclid's Optics,* which was paraphrased by Poet-Physician Oliver Wendell Holmes back in 1859: "By means of these...