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Scalpel and Torso. Brödel taught his students as he had been taught in Germany. James F. Didusch, who succeeded him at Hopkins, was his first pupil. On the first day, Brödel gave Didusch a scalpel and the torso of a woman, told him to begin dissecting, drawing each layer as he came to it. Didusch still remembers how surprisingly tough the skin was. Next day a girl joined the class. "Here," said Brödel, "let [her] have half the corpse...
...pilots. From there he took pilots' blood pressures, counted respirations by watching the rhythmic rise & fall of the little flow indicator ball in the oxygen control box (most flying was done at heights requiring masks), took pulses and armpit temperatures, watched for trembling, pallor, changes in pupil size. In all, he observed 16 different men during the ordeal by flak. Only three showed no fright reaction...
...reached his goal, knocked on the door of the famed horticulturist, Dr. Wilson Popenoe, head of the School of Pan-American Agriculture at Zamorano. The school was not scheduled to open for two months, but Ulises had come to beg for admission. Last week Ulises, now a prize pupil, was receiving the best training in farming that Central America offers...
This Gilbert & Sullivan admirer and pupil of Franz (Poet & Peasant) von Suppe suffered from withering attacks of gout. In his later years, doctors limited his alcoholic consumption to vintage Moselle...
...diploma honors at a high-school graduation. "Are you the president of the class?" asked Mr. Roosevelt. "No," replied the youth, "I am the principal." The 19-year-old principal had had one year's college training, got $400 a year for running his 250-pupil school...