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...reports in Brain that his first jerk-recording subject was a healthy, athletic type of 22, with no history of head injury or brain damage. But he had several such jerks nearly every night while falling asleep in a normal setting, and usually had one if he sneaked a nap on the job. Often he had a sensation of something "hot and bright" flowing through his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Dream of Falling | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...trait because he thought it was normal to fall asleep at family gatherings, in church or at meetings; eventually he admitted an occasion when he drove into a ditch three times on the way home because he got sleepy. Also he often stopped his car for a five-minute nap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Sleepy People | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...first glance, the beak-nosed Cologne engineering student seemed too easygoing to be a track champion. He practiced only a couple of hours a week, liked to sack out for a midday nap that lasted until 4, loved to strum his guitar at parties. Watching his relaxed approach to hurdling, West German sportswriters good-naturedly called him "the American from Cologne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grasshopper from Germany | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Jews should live such a life in any other country as in the Soviet Union. They live better in the Soviet Union than in Israel." Just then the pilot sent back word that too many people were in the tail section; the conference broke up, and Kozlov resumed his nap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Kremlin Man | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...kept up her reading; her home bulged with books. Friends came to call-veterans of the old days on the road and admirers from the new Hollywood-and no one ever heard a word of self-pity. One evening last week she woke for a moment from a short nap, grasped her nurse's hand and asked: "Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy." Then, at 79, Ethel Barrymore died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: That's All There Is . . . | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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