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...performs two functions. It collects sounds and it keeps track of the body's posture. Sensations of sound and of balance reach the brain along separate but intimately packed fibres of the acoustic nerve, a soft strand the diameter of a slate pencil. In Ménière's Disease only the balancing mechanism of the ear is impaired and all that is essential is to cut only the fibres which conduct balancing sensations. Brain surgeons, like exalted telephone repairmen selecting particular lines in a many-stranded cable, tried with little success?to pick out the balancing fibres of the acoustic...
...picture of a onetime college athlete. He left school at 14, never played baseball, dislikes card games. He belongs to the New York Athletic Club but has never seen its gymnasium. For recreation he goes to the cinema or astonishes his friends by solving intricate arithmetical problems without pencil & paper...
...almost impossible to pick out individually memorable shots. Among the best are: General Galliéni's army hurrying out of Paris to the First Battle of the Marne in Renault taxis; the Austrian flagship St. Stephan sinking in a flat Adriatic dotted with drowning bodies; the rough pencil line of a French army drawn across the snow-covered Vosges Mountains; a U. S. division crossing No Man's Land through machinegun fire; the captain of a German submarine ordering his crew to discharge a torpedo; Lenin waving his hands and snickering. The picture ends in a scornful...
...goodwill, the rumor spread that the President was disappointed with the unregenerate delegates, that he had decided to confine his speech to a breezy greeting. What happened after that is still a state secret. But a few hours before the bankers convened in Constitution Hall two men suddenly took pencil and paper and began to write. One was Franklin D. Roosevelt. The other was Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of Manhattan's First National ("Baker Bank), chairman of the organization committee of the Bank for International Settlements...
Founders' Day Speaker at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. was Author William Rose Benét. His subject: Poetess Elinor Wylie, his late fragile wife, who composed whole poems without pencil or paper and died in 1928 from the effects of falling downstairs. Declared Mr. Benét: "No photograph can recapture the distinction of her actual appearance, the strange, unforgettable beauty, the remote fastidiousness, the shy, almost scared aloofness followed on the instant by some impulsive gesture of affection or the kindling of her expressive face to some enthusiasm. She made the most diverse impressions upon people met casually...