Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton, 66, Harvard anthropologist and author (Apes, Men and Morons) who, from his skull-littered desk, lectured for birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of the mentally and physically defective; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Hooton's low opinion of Homo sapiens ("Gadgets and machines are getting better and better while men are getting worse and worse") once brought a demand upon the Massachusetts legislature for a probe of his "inhuman" teachings...
...Jungk in a book* just published in Britain, "[I think] of a young man . . . looking at me out of cavernous eyes with a vague, nearly distracted gaze. And I must return his glance, see again the compressed lips from which the teeth stand out as a caricature. How the skull structure has pushed forward against the flesh of the cheeks which are flattened by a tremendous pressure, the skin of the forehead pulled back, the flesh of the chin sagging . . . Poor little superman...
...Sweet and Brownell have run their tally of scanned subjects (including normal volunteers for comparison) to well over 200. The machine, they hope, will save many a patient from dangerous surgery inside the skull for the sole purpose of getting information and will make the operation far surer in cases where a lurking tumor is disclosed...
Edith (weighing in at an estimated 150 Ibs.) came out swinging a white skull which she had just taken from a cardboard box. On it she indicated what she called "the sphenoidal ridge." When a head is punched, she went on to explain, the brain is knocked against this ridge, and punch-drunkenness results. Sixty percent of all fighters, said Dr. Summerskill, end by becoming permanently punch-drunk. Beefy
...latest case drops into his arms when he props up a drunk outside an expensive Los Angeles nightspot. The drunk is a weak-willed chap named Terry Lennox who has trouble accepting the twin facts that his beautiful wife is a nymphomaniac and a millionairess. When she has her skull bashed and "gets dead" a few weeks later, Terry seems the logical suspect, except to Marlowe. After two more violent deaths and some incidental lady-killings by Marlowe, the whole case is tied up very suitably...