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...Harold George Wolff, who has researched ten years of headaches at New York Hospital, explained their mechanical causes. No matter how a sufferer may feel, the ache is never in the brain itself. Brain tissue, a grey and white mass of nerve cells and fibers, can be punctured, crushed or even burned without causing the slightest sensation of pain. But the veins and arteries which feed the brain and scalp, the membranes that cover the brain, some of the nerves of the head and neck are excruciatingly sensitive (see cut). Most headaches, said Dr. Wolff, come from the dilatation...
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...Napoleon did it, Hal Wolff does it, and I can do it," came the voice of Don S.Friedkin '42, student swami, out of the black depths of his darkened room where he sat utilizing a crystal ball...
...most promising of the year's new writers were Maritta M. Wolff and Eudora Welty. Miss Wolff's Whistle Stop ($2.50) was written with thumbs and overrated, but some passages showed an insight and a swift intensity which can develop into a good novelist. Miss Welty's A Curtain of Green ($2.50) showed brilliance of a sort which seems best likely to crystallize in small forms. A far greater talent than either of these, but also farther from crystallized, was revealed...