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Progress will come in still another vein. This concerns the sheer excitement and drama of broadcasting to such a large potential audience. Andrew feels this should help keep standards and morale high among the station's staff...
...Bysshe Shelley makes a brief appearance ("His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with"), and there is one glorious occasion when Lamb "dined in Parnassus, with Wordsworth, Coleridge, [Samuel] Rogers and Tom Moore-half the Poetry of England constellated and clustered." Coleridge, "in his finest vein," stole "all the talk," and "I am sure not one there but was content to be nothing but a listener...
...thin rubber tube (catheter) into it. But none of his hospital colleagues in Eberswalde, near Berlin, was willing to be a guinea pig. Suspecting the gleam in young Forssmann's eyes, the chief surgeon even forbade his experimenting on himself. Secretly one night Dr. Forssmann punctured a vein in his arm and persuaded a fellow resident to start working a tube into it. With little more than i ft. inserted, the friend quit, protesting that it was too dangerous. A week later, with no helper other than a nurse holding a mirror so that he could watch the tube...
...tried running a tube direct from baby Charles' head to his abdomen. It worked only for a few days at a time, then another operation was needed to clean it. To the father Dr. Spitz explained that he would like to drain the brain fluid into the jugular vein. But this would need a valve (to prevent back flow by the blood), and so far no satisfactory valve had been devised-they all had a tendency to clog...
...Spitz opened the baby's jugular, made an opening between the vein and one of the fluid-filled brain cavities, set the valve into the opening, and closed the skin over it. The valve worked. In less than two weeks Charles Holter went home. Last week, nearing his first birthday, he was still doing well. Though fluid might continue to collect for the rest of his life, it could drain off through the valve, which would stay in place. Pediatricians, who had just heard Dr. Spitz's report, were hopeful that his technique and Holter's valve...