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White said that "Massachusetts is the laughing stock of the more enlightened states, because we have to fight to obtain experimental animals. Which is more important," he asked, "a beloved child in our community or a stray dog or cat about to be killed." The proposed bill would enable research institutions to obtain for experimental purposes stray dogs and cats which are doomed to die in pounds...
...Robert E. Gross, Ladd Professor of Surgery, demonstrated a mechanical heart and emphasized the importance of animal experimentation in developing the apparatus. Many of the physicians pointed out that at the present time, the state exterminates almost 160,000 stray animals a year, while only 16,000 of these would satisfy the requirements of Massachusetts researchers...
...Loved by "150 million of the Great Unwashed" who knew him on the air, the great man was loathed by those who knew him in the flesh. His wife never gave him a divorce, but let him stray at the end of a long leash. Among other places, he strayed into the boudoir of one of his singers (Julie London). Making love to him, she says, "was my way of paying a premium on my job insurance." By the time the great man's portrait is filled in by his pressagent ("I was paid to work...
Frost also read two short poems on California, a new work inspired by a walk at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and another about Gus, a stray dog who came to visit...
...some ways the heatproof tubes work better than ordinary tubes. When operating red-hot, they need no electrically heated filament; their cathodes are hot enough to give off plenty of electrons. The hot titanium inside them acts as a "getter," sweeping up any stray gases that might impair the vacuum...