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The French mock hero of Five A.M. has a bad case of the hoo-ha's. His creator, Jean Dutourd. 36, is an accomplished satirical duelist (A Dog's Head, The Best Butter) who likes nothing better than to blood his pen on the foibles and pomposities of...
¶A new method for determining almost exactly the minute of death has been developed by Drs. Herbert P. Lyle and Frank P. Cleveland of the Hamilton County, Ohio coroner's office. Old methods relied on stage of rigor mortis, state of putrefaction, and rectal temperature changes in the...
Does debate weaken democracy? On the contrary, argues Author Labin, the rigor of the dogmatic one-opinion police state leads only to rigor mortis: "To believe that music must bring forth Leninistic harmonies, that physics must be de-Semiticized . . . non-Aryans sterilized, the kulaks exterminated: to believe all this, even...
¶ The Vatican Press Office confirmed reports in the illustrated Italian weekly Oggi that Pope Pius XII had told of having a vision of Jesus Christ during his illness last December. The vision came, said Oggi, while the Pope was saying the prayer Anima Christi, just as he reached the...
To modern Europe's greatest novelists, including Proust. Mann and Joyce, European culture is a dying patient at whose bedside they have arrived too late. Societies in rigor mortis also fascinated Robert Musil, a little-known Austrian ex-army officer, who began dissecting the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1922...