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...neurons are only one-thousandth as fast as vacuum tube relays, but they require much less space and much less power. Professor McCulloch estimated that if a calculating machine had only 10 million vacuum tubes (the brain has about 10 billion neurons), it would take the power of Niagara Falls to operate it and the Niagara River to keep it from overheating. The brain is cooled by a comparatively small river of blood. When awake and in full operation, it raises the temperature of a pint of circulating blood one-half degree a minute...
Last week he was doing just that. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., Columbus, Ohio, Wheeling, W. Va. and eleven other cities and towns, hundreds of thousands of children turned out to watch department-store parades featuring Jean Gros's balloons. He had a dragon 100 ft. long, a 450-ft. train with rubber figures of people and animals poking their heads out of the windows, Santa Claus, and a string of jeeps...
...Clifford Odets' Clash By Night, is more reticent about Tallulah than he is on most topics. During that play, in which Tallulah carried on several concurrent vendettas, she referred to Rose as "a loathsome little bully," and stopped talking to him. (His defense: "How can you bully Niagara Falls...
...Buffalo's television station WBEN-TV televised Niagara Falls-including, of course, an interview with a honeymooning couple...
...passions distracted Brooke. He was almost at his best in his letters. From a Munich boardinghouse he described a "monstrous, tired-faced, screeching, pouchy creature, of infinite age and horror, who screams opposite me at dinner and talks with great crags of food projecting from her mouth." Musing on Niagara Falls, Poet Brooke wrote: "The river, with its multitudinous waves and its single current, likens itself to a life . . . And as incessant, as inevitable and as unavailing as the spray that hangs over the falls, is the white cloud of human crying...