Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorker. It was performed by special dispensation, the work of the first ASCAP man to return to the networks with his own tunes. The composer and conductor was lanky, ruddy, silvery-haired Robert Russell Bennett, back on the air in a WOR-Mutual program called Russell Bennett's Notebook (7 p.m. E. S. T.). The program has been allowed to return, mainly because Mr.Bennett plays noncommercial music...
...read in a medical journal that if you tie off a pancreas duct, the digestive juice cells shrivel up, die. That gave him the great idea-how to get the digestive juices out of the way, to get at the spark-plug chemical. He wrote three sentences in a notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks for degeneration. Remove residue and extract." Then he went to bed, but probably not to sleep...
...chiropractor named Wilfred C. Blair locked himself in a closet with a 25-lb. cake of dry ice. Aim: a "scientific experiment" with carbon dioxide. As the ice melted, it gave off C02 fumes. In 20 minutes, the chiropractor was dead. Next to his body police found a notebook containing his pulse, temperature and respiration record...
...working-class characters in The Living and the Dead are done as if from a Junior Leaguer's notebook. But the sterilities of Elyot, the smolderings of Eden, above all the nervous, bogus charm and climacteric rut of the mother, are very real indeed; and scene after scene is worked out with exactness and subtlety which no second-string novelist can scent, far less nail to paper...
...Dallwig describes himself as "a lawyer by profession, a businessman by accident, and a scientist by remote control." He used to sell insurance but has given that up almost entirely, still makes money from a special loose-leaf notebook which he invented for insurance salesmen. One day in 1935, oppressed by business cares and seeking distraction, he dropped into the museum, listened to a stock lecturer. When it was over he found that his cares had fallen away. He went to about 100 more lectures, began to bone up on geology, anthropology, mineralogy, meteoritics, zoology, paleontology...