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...Gopher go through prep school together and enter Harvard in 1941. "In the catch-all of a great university," Gus writes, "a tiny side-pocket exists, atrophied, isolated, inexplicable as the appendix in the digestive tract . . . Like the appendix, it gave nothing to and took nothing from the undergraduate body, yet it was never ruptured and could not be removed by surgery . . . For want of a name some called it 'the St. Grottlesex Crowd...
...without mental awareness of it, would start the patient's stomach working. It did not. But the physical touch of food entering the stomach set off a chain of automatic reactions. The stomach "grabbed" the food with firm muscles and "milked" it on its way down the intestinal tract. And the stomach did these same things when the doctors inserted a small balloon on a string...
...Sample, from Hubbard's new tract, Scientology: 8-80: "An individual who cannot get out of his body immediately can look around inside his head and find the black spots and turn them white...
...best temperance-tract tradition, a mere glass and a half of red wine starts Erwin Sommer, a fortyish wholesale produce dealer, on the road to an alcoholic inferno. Uneasy over business losses and unhappy with his martinet wife, he soon regards the bottle as man's best friend. He cheats to get contracts, he lies to his wife, and he pays court to a blowzy waitress whom he blearily crowns "The Queen of Alcohol...
...battle over which is to be the TV capital of the U.S., Hollywood last week had a comfortable edge over Manhattan. On a 25-acre tract in the middle of Los Angeles, CBS dedicated a new TV City, a supermodern expandable plant covering 8½ acres, and outfitted with enough doodads and gadgets to make even the best-equipped movie studio envious...