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Since last spring when a Berkeley, Calif, surgeon sawed two holes in her skull "to let out the pain," as she understood the purpose of the operation, Dema Dunlap, 23, a buxom, introspective epileptic, had an irresistible compulsion to finger her scalp where it lay sewn over the trephine holes. The soft spots, yielding under pressure of her finger tips, felt like the germinal depressions of a coconut...
...head seemed ready to burst. Fingering her right temple seemed to help. The harder she pressed the better her head felt. An idea developed in her dulled wits. The young woman found a 4-in. spike, 316 in. in diameter. The sharp point of this she pressed into her scalp over a trephine hole. It hurt a little, but it made her feel better. Reaching her left hand over her head, she held the spike in position and with her right fist pounded the spike into her brain as far as it would go, Except for the trifling pain...
...almost entirely an Ivy proposition, including: Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, Navy, and Penn. Although the team will take water against several other colleges, it is within the sacred ranks of this League that all attention will be centered; and the League Championship which will necessarily include an Eli scalp, is the Lotus Isle toward which these mermen will be swimming all season...
First the surgeons cut two-inch-long slits into the patient's scalp down to the bone. Each slit lies slightly more than an inch away from the midline of the skull and crosses a line running across the head from ear to ear. At each junction of the ear-to-ear line and the slits in the scalp, Drs. Freeman & Watts drill a hole with a dentist's bur. The bur holes permit passage of a leucotome, or lobotomy cannula, a hollow needle through which a loop of wire can be slipped...
...massacre in the Yale Bowl yesterday afternoon collected another Eli scalp for the Crimson Rugby fifteen, and jacked their record up to seven straight victories...