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...done, the researchers were more tentative in their reports. Most positive was Houston's famed surgeon, Michael E. DeBakey, who reported that in a random series of 150 stroke victims examined by arterial X rays, no fewer than 43% were adjudged capable of getting substantial relief from prompt surgery...
...Senior Prompt. In Davenport, Iowa. Henry Zimmerman, 79, retired foundry inspector, entered St. Ambrose College as a freshman, explained: "I just got tired of loafing...
...flair for casting opinions in clear and forceful English. Wrote Judge Stewart, upholding the habeas corpus appeal of a prisoner who had been whisked before a judge late at night, convicted of rape on the basis of a forced confession, and sentenced to life without benefit of counsel: "The prompt and vigorous administration of the criminal law is to be commended and encouraged. But swift justice demands more than just swiftness...
...note Wolfe sent to Professor Baker with the manuscript of Welcome to Our City, he described his ideas of "literary photography," the quality in his later writing which was to make critics throw up their hands in disgust, and prompt Bernard DeVoto to growl about the "proper business of fiction." Wolfe wrote to Baker: "I have written this play with thirty-odd named characters because it required it, not because I didn't know how to save paint. Some day I'm going to write a play with fifty, eighty, a hundred people--a whole town, a whole race...
...last week, those letters, says Snodgrass, will prove to a grand jury that he and someone on Twenty One were involved in a fix. "Surprised" by Artist Snodgrass' testimony. NBC officials faced up to the fact that the quiz scandal has not died and promised "to launch a prompt and thorough investigation of the charges...