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Excesses of spleen and puerility are seldom a playwright's assets. John Osborne, who can rant as forcefully as he rambles pointlessly, would doubtless be a bore as a mellow young man. But if he risks less anger some day, he can probably say more...
Still smarting from its 17 to 11 setback at the hands of Springfield last Wednesday, the varsity wrestling team will attempt to vent its spleen on Princeton, the defending Ivy champion, this afternoon...
...fascinated Pathologist Lentino, as he now reports in the A.M.A. Journal, was the amazing state of preservation of the internal organs. As his trained eye looked at the organs, though they were six years dead, it was simple for him to identify instantly the stomach and heart, liver and spleen. But when he took specimens of them for laboratory examination, the microscope showed that the tissues (normally complex and distinctive) had disintegrated. There was no way to tell, from a microscopic examination of the tissues alone, what had been heart or what had been liver...
Well preserved by the alcohol,* Jones's body was autopsied by Paris Pathologist André Victor Cornil, who snipped bits of tissue from the heart, lungs, spleen and kidneys. The lungs showed evidence of pneumonia and possibly TB, from which Jones was known to have suffered. The kidney tissue showed the effects of nephritis, from which the great captain had died. Pathologist Cornil had the kidney slides photographed; the pictures were sent to the U.S. Congress along with Ambassador Porter's report...
...House of Lords, Earl Attlee, making his maiden speech, vented his spleen on what he called the U.S.'s "rather outdated anti-colonialism." "I sometimes feel," said Attlee, "with all friendliness to our American friends, that they are a little apt to stand on the sidelines and leave us to carry the fight." But he too was critical of Makarios' exile. "The rebels of the past generally tend, sooner or later, to be the Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth,"* he observed tartly...