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...when muscles in the chest become too weak to function properly, polio victims need mechanical assistance simply to breathe. Though many of the polio victims who survive are left partly paralyzed, they often make dramatic progress. Muscles that had fallen slack begin to work again when healthy nerve cells sprout new connecting fibers and take over the work of cells ravaged by polio...
...mystery or some truly wild comic turns. But Murphy is very much present, and it could be argued that their task was not so much to provide a taut story line as to create a cheerful climate where his marvelous talent and his compelling yet gracefully stated energy could sprout in all directions...
Read Foreign Affairs now, don't wait for the vidco: it is not the stuff of which mini series are made. The sibling affairs here are delightfully foreign: not because they sprout in London but because they involve the separate affairs of Professor Vinnie Miner, an authority on English children rhymes, and Assistant Professor Fred Furner, who is in pursuit of tenure via the works of eighteenth century English poet John...
...bride's sepulchral maid remained loyal beyond the grave to the first Lady Hillcrest, whose portrait was known to bleed when a stray bullet punctured the canvas. On nights when a full moon peeked through the clouds, Lord Edgar's Karloffian butler showed a disconcerting tendency to sprout wolfs hair...
After that summer with the Bakers, college was a bit of a let-down. A "B" student in my earlier years, I suddenly began to sprout "A's" on my blue books. My only outside job was chauffeuring Harvard's then-new president, James Bryant Conant '14, and his family--which entailed meeting many corporate executives at Back Bay Station en route to meetings of the Overseers. They all chatted amiably with their student chauffeur but the only advice I remember was from Charles Townsend Copeland when I drove him to what must have been one of his very last...