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...Larkin clan's infectious lust for life, makes H. E. (for Herbert Ernest) Bates's novel one of the blithest robustious romps of the year. The book's gusto is all the more remarkable coming from welfare-sated England and from 53-year-old Author (The Sleepless Moon) Bates, a writer who in recent years has focused on the somber, the lovelorn and the violent...
...hand behind his back and one on a rifle topped by a flat-bladed, freshly honed bayonet. Motionless, they stared across the brook into thick underbrush where no human figure was to be seen. They were two of the thousands of 12?-a-month Turkish mehmetciks who keep sleepless vigil over the 367-mile border which is the only frontier between Russia and the rest of the world (save for a small, frozen strip of Norway) that the U.S. is committed to defend...
First to Break. To a second group of students Drs. Bliss and Clark gave minute doses of LSD-25, a drug known to produce schizophrenia-like symptoms. When the subjects were rested, it had no effect; after 48 sleepless hours, the same dose brought on severe hallucinations...
...milk a proper food for healthy adults? Is whisky a proper medication for sleepless infants? Last week these questions were being hotly debated in the medical profession...
Bottle Babies? Manhattan's Dr. Harry Bakwin, past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, started the ruckus over whisky when he told a Washington medical meeting that 15 drops make an acceptable sedative for a sleepless child.* Other pediatricians doubted that so minute a dose would have any detectable effect, though some said they might give it to a baby with colic if the family had no other sedative in the house. The Rev. Dr. Albert P. Shirkey of Washington's Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church was outraged. "I feel it was a terrible blunder to prescribe...