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Ever since the discovery of anesthesia, men have been trying to defy God's word to Eve. In 1941, Drs. Robert Hingson and Waldo Edwards of the U.S. Public Health Service started experimenting with continuous caudal analgesia-slow injection of a pain-killing drug into the nerve canal at the base of the spine-during labor. Among their first subjects: Coast-guardsmen's wives at Staten Island's Stapleton Marine Hospital...
...matribus detestata"), Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus, Lucretius, Democritus, Kant, Condorcet, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Pierre Dubois, l'Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Poincaré, Ruy Barbosa and the Baron de Rio Branco (of Brazil), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bernard M. Baruch...
Died. Paul Rosenfeld, 56, author (Port of New York), music and art critic, a guiding spirit of the American literary renaissance of the 1920s, founder (with Van Wyck Brooks and Waldo Frank) of the "little magazine" Seven Arts, early champion of modernist Composers Stravinsky, Copland, Milhaud; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Union forum and onetime Rutgers philosophy professor, served up this judgment in a unique anthology: Great Teachers, Portrayed by Those Who Studied under Them (Rutgers University Press, $3.50). Its 22 essays ranged from a profile of Anne Mansfield Sullivan by her only pupil, Helen Keller, to impressions of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Russell Lowell...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson, the barnstorming lecturer to the U.S., as Lowell remembered him: "There is a kind of undertow in that rich baritone of his that sweeps our minds from their foothold into deeper waters with a drift we cannot and would not resist. . . . Behind each word we divine the force of a noble character, the weight of a large capital of thinking and being. We do not go to hear what Emerson says so much as to hear Emerson. . . . If asked what was left? what we carried home? . . . we might have asked in return what one brought away from...