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Check, Please. In Montgomery, Ala., a jury ordered Restaurateur Mike Miaoulis to pay $4,542 damages to a friend whose ear lobe he had bitten off in a fight...
...accurate little gadget that will warn the high-altitude flyer when the oxygen in his bloodstream is dropping toward the danger point. Clamped on the translucent cartilage of a pilot's ear, a tiny light bulb emitting red and infra-red rays will shine through the ear lobe to illuminate a small photoelectric cell. As the oxygen saturation of the pilot's blood drops below its normal 98%, it will turn a darker, heavier red. Less light will filter through his ear lobe and less current will be given off by the photoelectric cell. A red warning light...
...butler gets very annoyed if she misses one"). Almost as many take issue with the puns Funnyman Block incorporates into his earnest questions. Others charge collusion, although Moderator Daly insists that there is only one signal he ever gives to the panel: when he pulls his right ear lobe it warns them, usually Block, that the questions are getting dangerously close to double entendre...
Before & after the Yale-Harvard boat race at New London last year, a professional-looking fellow stepped up to each member of the Harvard crew, including the coxswain, pricked the lobe of one ear and drew a single drop of blood. He was Dr. Albert E. Renold, research fellow at Harvard Medical School, popularly known to the boys as Dr. Vampire...
...wide piece of skull above the middle of the forehead, or two smaller pieces over each temple, so that he can see what he is cutting. Boston's Dr. Harry C. Solomon reports on hundreds of such cases and on still more variations. Sometimes only one lobe was cut (this seemed to be less successful) ; in other cases both lobes were cut near the midline of the brain, leaving the part near the temples...