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Three-Day Bat. The humor is more rueful in a short piece called XRay, written for The New Yorker in 1930. By that time Lardner's health was failing. He was drinking heavily, though still writing lightly. At the end the author is being carted to a hospital, his Lardner tone still unmistakable: "In an ambulance they made you ride lying down, whereas you can take your choice in a taxi...
...Roman Catholic university got Canada's self-styled Mind-Massager Marshall McLuhan, 56, to come down for a year's guest professorship. In his very first lecture, McLuhan told his 178 students that the Viet Nam war is "an all-outeducational effort" and that TV is "an Xray machine." The one student who tried to take notes dissolved in utter confusion. But the rest were turned on-to say nothing of the reporters at a press conference where McLuhan went on about orchestra conductors ("janitors") and the separation of church and state ("outlived its usefulness...
...contemplates. U.S. military planners remain haunted by the frightening possibility that the Russians have actually developed a technique that will come up to Khrushchev's boast that a Russian rocket could "hit a fly" in outer space. Rumors have circulated in Washington about Russian "Xray defense" and "zap" effects of nuclear explosions far bigger than those involved in the Nike-X system-explosions that would effectively clear the skies of most, if not all, U.S. ICBMs, no matter how many were launched...
Everywhere he went, the visitor smelled ether, a sure sign of outdated anesthesia techniques. Disposable products such as linens and syringes were unknown, though they are in wide use in the U.S. "Diagnostic work is primitive," said Hall. "Xray equipment is antiquated. Blood-chemistry analysis is inefficient." The leisurely, informal pace was astounding. At a 500-bed hospital, ten to 15 operations a day are normal in Russia-compared with 35 to 50 in the U.S. At Moscow's Neurosurgical Institute, the entire staff turned out to hear Dr. Hall lecture on the air-powered drills and bone saws...
...physicians have been burning themselves, and sometimes patients as well, with accidental overdoses. And like the damage from exposure to more recently discovered sources of nuclear energy, X-ray burns have proved virtually incurable. Despite skin grafts, they often lead to progressive gangrene and successive amputations one famed "Xray martyr," Chicago's late Dr. Emil Grubbé, had no fewer than 93 operations before he died...