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...that such a shift would be "fatal to his future." MacArthur was adamant, and for months Author Marshall watched her husband go about his new duties with "a grey, drawn look." When Colonel Marshall's generalcy came through in 1936, husband and wife sat staring at each other, speechless...
...hide was covered with long, reddish-brown woolly hair. The hind legs measured nearly 50 inches from sole to knee, and weighed about 350 pounds each. The scientists had the "great satisfaction," one of them reported, of finding even the genitals "in the best possible condition. . . . We stood speechless in front of this evidence of the prehistoric world...
...specialized muscular re-education much like that for polio cases. Treatment takes from six months to a year, and costs $200 to $250 a month. Improvement is apparently retained. Possibilities vary with the extent of brain damage, but most of Dr. Kabat's patients have improved-the speechless have begun to talk, the trembling have learned to eat with a steady hand, walk with a sure step...
...recorder and a push-button control box, is the first fully automatic telephonograph. If its owner is busy or out, the gadget patiently waits out four rings, then croaks: "This is the Ipsophone, Blank Company, Mr. Smith's office. Attention. Please speak-now." If the caller is struck speechless, the machine waits politely for twelve seconds then repeats its invitation. The Ipsophone will listen for up to half an hour without interruption, recording every word...
...Spiral Staircase. Speechless Dorothy McGuire is stalked by a horror who shall remain nameless (TIME...