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...healthy adult finback should have a slow pulse-only twelve to the minute or less. But by the time the Woods Hole scientists had it wired, the Provincetown specimen was sick at heart, its pulse racing at an uncetacean 27-still only one-third the rate of the excited Dr. Kanwisher (see cut). An hour before Dr. White got to its beachside, the whale died and was rigged for towing...
...Broadway show, Li'l Abner boasts an appropriate Dogpatchy plot. After a nationwide survey, Dogpatch is declared "the most unnecessary place in these U.S.," and selected as the site of the next A-bomb test. Dogpatch is dramatically saved when Mammy Yokum (Billie Hayes) produces the only surviving specimen of the Yokumberry tree, whose fruit distills a tonic that can make any man as big and strong and beautiful as Li'l Abner (Peter Palmer). Then the plot thickens as the villain (Howard St. John) slinks upon the scene in the form of that well-known Cappitalist, General...
Lion goalie Stew Witt had an awful time with his left fullback, Ekkehard Boellert, a 6 ft., 6 in., 250 lb. specimen who seemed to be in the right place at the right time by divine intervention, but was obstructing Witt's view of the play. The following exchange resulted...
From the outstandingly competitive men and their opposites, the researchers picked a dozen of each, persuaded them to keep samples of their urine all day on the job, and a nighttime specimen for comparison. Analysis showed what happened to the excretion (and therefore, presumably, to the body's output) of various kinds of hormones. Adrenocortical hormones such as hydrocortisone were similar in the two groups, and varied little between day and night. But on the job, the competitive men's adrenaline jumped 86% above night readings, as against 36% for the comparison group. With noradrenaline, said Dr. Friedman...
...final touch, the Agency has even taught its vendors how to appeal to their Harvard customers. "Get your icecold hotdog here," one was heard to wail, offering a tolerably warm specimen. Then plaintively, "Please, somebody buy this hotdog." And people do. Each sale earns three cents for the hawker, and a penny saved is $50,000 a year...