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Evangelist of Reason. When he was 19, Wells wrote an essay called The Past and Future of the Human Race. Seldom thereafter did he tackle a less ambitious subject in a spirit less sanguine. He disliked and soon left the evangelistic Protestantism in which he was brought up; but he always remained the most passionate of Protestants, the most eloquent of evangelists...
Nevertheless their lawyer fought on, and managed to invite a dispute between a group of sympathetic M.P.s and the Colonial Office. One of the M.P.s quoted scholarly books to the effect that human blood had not been ceremonially used in the Gold Coast for a century, and pointed out that some of the accused were Christians who would not have been tolerated at a pious pagan ceremony. The Colonial Office icily retorted that human blood was still preferred and that nominal Christianity means nothing to African ritual phlebotomists...
Structural Test. During tests of the airplane's structural strength, the radio equipment especially shines. Designers like to know how much extra strain an airplane will take. Formerly, they sent a human pilot aloft with instructions to test the plane for the most extreme strains it would get in combat or commercial service. Often, especially in spin tests or pullouts from high-speed dives, something broke or failed to work. Even if the pilot parachuted to safety, neither he nor the plane's smashed instruments could tell the full story of just what happened at the climax...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage batted about by Authors Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens) and Charles Rolo (Wingate's Raiders) and by Critic John Mason Brown...
...Heart. One of the most deadly of all human infections is bacterial endocarditis (bacterial inflammation of a heart membrane). Against it, penicillin at first failed. Now heart specialists have found an answer: bigger doses of penicillin than previously tried. In a bulletin of the American Heart Association, Dr. Thomas H. Hunter of Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital announced that with massive penicillin doses (up to 20,000,000 units a day) it is possible to cure the subacute form of the disease "in almost every patient...