Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he took off his pants in a sleeping compartment of the Barcelona-Bilbao express one night last week, New York's Congressman Eugene J. Keogh, Democrat, made a serious mistake. He hung them near the open window. In the next compartment, Congressman James P. Richards, Democrat, of South Carolina, undressed and did likewise. When they woke up, both pairs of pants were gone...
...young medical researcher assisting at an operation near the phrenic nerve (which runs from the brain to the diaphragm), got a new idea from watching a well-known reaction. When stimulated, the phrenic nerve makes the diaphragm contract, causing abdominal breathing. Why is it not possible, Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff asked himself, to stimulate the nerve rhythmically, perhaps electrically, to provide artificial respiration for patients whose breathing apparatus has been upset...
...Lord (by W. Douglas Home; produced by Lee & J. J. Shubert and Linnit & Dunfee Ltd. by arrangement with John Krimsky) is one of those comedies that are blatantly British and otherwise quiet as mice. Treating of a titled family that has almost gone broke and an England that has gone Labor, it couldn't be more concerned with politics or less concerned about them...
This season got off to a bad start when plans for a trip to Stanford failed, through no fault of a committee composed of Borgatti and William J. Reinhardt '45, drum major, who worked all during the past summer and missed their goal by only a small margin...
...first, and more engaging episode is the saga of Mr. J. Thaddeus Toad, hero of British author Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Disney has brought him to life on the screen with a spontaneous, satirical humor that does well by Mr. Grahame...