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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old housewife, eight months pregnant, arrived one morning last week and announced that her unborn baby was crying. The doctors listened. Sure enough, faint wails were coming from the fetus. The phenomenon, which may result when air reaches a baby through prematurely ruptured membranes, is not unknown, but it has rarely occurred so early. Except that the wails made her a little "nervous," the patient was feeling fine, looking forward to a normal delivery in a few weeks...
...scientist, of all persons, should be able to stop where knowledge stops, namely with Nature, and be bold enough to confess and to live with the great gulf of the unknown which lies beyond...
...drum-roll effect in Haydn's Symphony No. 103 ("The Drum Roll") was not Haydn's idea, but the work of a later innovator, identity unknown...
...back to Basses-Pyrénées, made the long, hard climb from Licq-Athérey to Lépineux's discovery. They brought climbing ladders, cement to secure loose rock in the side of the chimney, and a windlass to lower the explorers into the unknown. Expedition Chief Max Cosyns, a Belgian nuclear physicist who goes after spelunking records on the side, estimated the chimney's depth by timing the echo from rocks that ricocheted off the limestone walls. The explorers were looking for a drop of about 350 meters...
...given the mousy lady her later look? Most probably, says Keck, some unknown craftsman of 50 years ago or so who wanted to pretty her up for prospective buyers. In reworking the face, the painter might even have tried for a faithful likeness of Lady Georgiana Gordon: the top picture bore some resemblance to a contemporary drawing of her. But who was the restored lady? Brooklyn hasn't solved that problem...