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...alter the cerebral blood pressure, remove the spasmodic stimulus. ¶ Dr. Donald Anderson Laird, Colgate's well-publicized authority on sleep, also had a report to make last week on the effect of posture on blood distribution. Dr. Laird thought that, although mankind was benefited by acquiring the upright position, there were some disadvantages. In erect man the blood tends to collect in the abdominal pool, which may cause a slight blood deficiency in the brain. Dr. Laird tested, for proficiency in mental arithmetic, six students with their heads a foot lower than their feet. In this position they...
...baby, a healthy 7 lb. boy, was removed, washed, footprinted for identification. When Editor Pooley shuffled through the results of the morning's work, he immediately pounced on the Caesarean pictures as most newsworthy. Well he knew that if he published them many a shocked busybody and upright citizen would berate him soundly. But he also knew that the pictures would be exciting news to almost all his readers, including the busybodies. Forthwith, Newsman Pooley splashed over the first page of his second section what were, so far as he knew, the first photographs of a Caesarean section ever...
This was not a criminal to be dealt with. This was not a case for the house of correction. Here was an upright and respected student who was the victim of an unfortunate accident, written up in Boston's scandal mongering, anti-Harvard, publicity minded papers and dealt with in a most twisted and warped fashion. To a casual reader, it would appear that here was a modern Dillinger and not an unfortunate victim of circumstances...
...France, manages to turn out a good book almost every year. He may write about politics, the history of religions, archaeology or Madame de Staël. His study in Lyon is a jumble of dusty documents, old pipes, broken spectacles. In it there is also an old-fashioned upright piano, stacks of music which M. Herriot likes to play. Published for the first time in English last week was a Herriot book on Beethoven, the composer who appeals most to France's solid bourgeois statesman...
...abed in his South Carolina home last week, Mr. Hutton must have sat bolt upright when he heard the reaction to his suggestion. Angry editorials burgeoned. Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby Committee thought Mr. Hutton should be investigated. Mr. Hutton's trim, dapper figure appeared in a Rollin Kirby cartoon, soliciting Big Business support to "gang" Franklin D. Roosevelt. President Colby Chester of General Foods hastily disclaimed his chairman's ideas as representing corporate policy. A market letter of Weingarten & Co. offered Stockbroker Hutton some sage advice: "Interests and forces opposed to the Administration...