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...middle, while an attendant held the creature. Peter smirked a little at first as if he were invulnerable, but presently his eyelids drooped and he slowly collapsed in a trance, with one arm outstretched like a dozing farmhand's and one foot comfortably resting on the opposite thigh (see cuts). In this "torpid condition" he remained for seven minutes-a spectacle at which Biologist Huxley goggled in utter astonishment. Dr. Thoma had no way of ascertaining what was going on in Peter's subconscious mind during the experiment, but smilingly declared: ''This initial success with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Impressionable Peter | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Electricity may cure the diseased facial nerve and restore action to the features. When that fails, Surgeons Tickle and Sullivan splice a piece of healthy nerve taken from the patient's thigh into the dying nerve of his face. The frequent success of this reparative operation was spoiled by an occasional misadventure. In some patients the operation caused a mad, uncontrollable jigging and grimacing of the treated half of the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Grimaces, Grunts, Glaucoma | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...named Norma Taylor*, was also recalled by a Los Angeles policeman. Dr. Thorpe had summoned him in after Miss Taylor, intoxicated, had invaded his dining room when he was eating with his daughter, brandished a candlestick, chased him upstairs, cornered him in a bathroom, plunged a fork into his thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thorpe v. Astor | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

Memphis "socialites" have been at least tutored if not bred to the better tradtion of southern manners. None would disport her thick, blackened thigh to Pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Flutes have been made of wood, bamboo, ivory, jade, rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: $3,000 Flute | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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