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...soon as the victim of brain tumor breathed his last, they cut him open, slit out one of his healthy adrenal glands. Then they gave the dying woman a local anesthetic, grafted the gland in her wasted abdominal muscles, nursed her along with synthetic hormones till the graft took. Within a week the gland was functioning and the woman was well enough to leave the hospital...
...Those of us who may prefer prehistoric affinity to swine are asked to cut their own throats from ear to ear. Those of us ... who have a predilection for consanguinity with sheep are asked to make only a small slit in our throats...
...surprising fact was that the machine had grown to tremendous proportions with the top above Vag's head and the tuning knob as large as a door handle. Perplexed, Vag warily tugged on the knob. The whole front panel responded to his pull; and Vag slipped through the slit he had opened and looked about...
...still staring at the crowd's clothing when the big Negro ran past him. The black face was bisected by a toothy grin. Close behind came Mather, waving his cane and sputtering imprecations. Vag stepped back through the slit to get out of the way, and the change in light blinded him for a moment. When his vision cleared the radio was back on the mantel...
...Fannie Hurst, Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, Williams College's Professor Max Lerner, Thomas ("the Cork") Corcoran, official committee agitator, bobbed into New York City to help Mr. LaGuardia. To Springfield, Mass. went handsome Paul V. McNutt, onetime Presidential aspirant himself, whose throat was last year neatly slit by New Deal candidate-assassins. Keynoting the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, Mr. McNutt described the Republican policy as giving business complete license to operate any way it likes, denounced Willkie as a turncoat Democrat who has become "the Nation's Number One Roosevelt Hater." Even Boss Flynn finally announced...