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...mind and body when he goes without sleep. The medicine men, lured by the scent of big data, moved in on the ballyhoo of a Times Square stunt, set up an elaborate laboratory in the Hotel Astor, poked and pried and quizzed Disk Jockey Peter Tripp for 200 sleepless hours. It will take months to sift the stacks of data they gathered. Tripp gave his verdict the moment he was saved by the clock: "You can't stay awake alone. You need someone there to keep telling you, 'Up, boy, up.' " See MEDICINE, Sleepless in Gotham...
Spacemen, Beware! Finally Tripp had delusions: he thought the marathon was over, but that the investigators were playing a game with him to keep it running. At one point he imagined he was broadcasting from another building miles away. These changes in mental functioning reminded psychiatrists of breakdowns under sleep deprivation and round-the-clock questioning in Iron Curtain countries. To psychologists thinking of spaceships, his crackup on the lighted-panel tests were a significant warning...
Even when Tripp had triumphantly rounded out his 200 hours, his service to science was not ended. The researchers kept him awake for another hour of tests, taped leads to his head to get brain-wave readings and left them in place when, with eyes bloodshot and skin sallow, he fell asleep. During his 13-hour slumber they also ran electrocardiograms. Leary of the dangers of these stunts, Dr. West had not been able to promise Tripp that there would be no harmful effects. This week, though Tripp seemed outwardly well, he was still getting tests to make sure...
...Such stunts are an occupational disease of disk jockeys. Dave Hunter of WZRO, in Jacksonville, Fla., started two hours before Tripp. With only occasional medical checks, he kept going for 225 hours, but his claim of a world's record was disputed...
Gary M. Little '61 was elected Activities Chairman. The club chose four Members-at-Large for its Executive Committee: David Z. Farbman '60, John J. King '61, Jerome K. McDonough '61 and Minot W. Tripp...