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...received between 6,000 and 18,000 rem (roentgen equivalent man) of radiation, at least ten times the dose that is generally considered deadly. Nine hours after the accident, Kelley became coherent enough to explain that he mistook the blue flash for a short circuit in the stirrer switch. A day later he died. Dr. Thomas Shipman, head of the laboratory's health division, said that the radiation had done fatal damage to his central nervous system...
Vest-Pocket Vesuvius. A hot drink can easily be prepared in a snowstorm with a new pestle-like gadget called the Heatron Stirrer. It has a small cylinder on one end vhich contains a cartridge-like charge. Immersed in liquid, the stirrer gives off enough fumeless heat to bring a cup of water to the boiling point. Price, including six charges...
...Inspiration for the "1918" campaign, as in the case of the "V" campaign, came from BBC's stirrer-up of the occupied people, Colonel Britton...
...mechanic and aviator (and a damned good one) ever done that makes him think he is a guiding light for mankind? Isn't this what the psychiatrists call a form of megalomania? It's presumptuousness at the least. Now that he has been revealed as a prime stirrer-upper of racial prejudice he ceases to be merely ridiculous-he becomes a menace to the very ideals of tolerance and justice which we are trying to strengthen and deepen. If we must have Junior in politics let him keep his bib clean...
Literary Exercise. Pseudo-duels, arty riots (incited by everything from Dadaism to literary prize awards), political squabbles and fishwife furies are traditional components of the French literary life. Dean of French literary stirrer-uppers is scrawny, deaf, 71-year-old Charles Maurras, libeling editor for 41 years of the Royalist-Catholic Action Francaise. Last Maurras scandal occurred a year ago when he was elected to the French Academy (TIME, June 27, 1938), following close on the finish of his eight-month prison sentence for urging assassination of Leon Blum...