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...July 17). Some U. S. films, most of them documentary, have owed much to music of this sort. Virgil Thomson, long an expatriate, did wonders with a small orchestra for Pare Lorentz' The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River. Last year Aaron Copland contributed a lean, muscular musical commentary to The City. This year his music for Of Mice and Men was cut closer to Hollywood's measure...
...kind of drunkenness, a "C52 jag." Then follow "a rich variety of neurologic disorders" including vertigo, vomiting, loss of muscle control, jumping and twitching, "spider webs" before the eyes. Victims are usually sleepy and tired, but in bed they are tortured by terrifying nightmares, wakened by violent muscular spasms. And finally, "there cannot be any doubt," according to noted Neurophysiologist Fritz Heinrich Lewy of the University of Pennsylvania, "that industrial C52 poisoning leads to insanity...
...contest with the Tigers, the muscular Crimson mentor had gone on record as saying that for him, at least, the season would be a successful one if his team could take Princeton. Now, however, he is going to have to revise that opinion. His 1940 record has been marred, of course, so the feeling around the pool is that the boys will have to make an extra good showing against Yale and in the League championships if their prestige is to be salvaged...
...virulent poison in a species of salamander, Triturus torosus, which is abundant in California. The venom occurs in the egg yolk, in embryos which have not finished eating the yolk, and in egg-carrying adult females. When some of this poison was injected into a cat, the cat lost muscular coordination, collapsed, went into convulsions, suffered respiratory paralysis, died in 20 minutes. Quantitative tests showed that one gram (1/28 oz.) of Triturus poison is enough to kill 75,000 mice or 600 monkeys or (presumably) 21 grown...
Illman prevailed in his match by dint of his superior knowledge and opportunist tactics, and just edged the more muscular Loring after coming from behind, with all odds again him, at the end of four minutes of wrestling...