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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 1, 1941
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From The Star Port Page 10 SOUTHERN STAR stand excessively high altitudes or deep-sea pressures as do queer insects of the upper air found inhabiting the highest Himilayas or lantern-bearing fish cruising along the slimy ocean bottoms -- but it's very adaptable. It takes in about 34 pounds of air every 24 hours and utilizes this air in a variety of ways far more complex than the ways employed by insects. For example, the air contains a galvanic source of energy capable of giving humans extra strength in times of stress. If you don't believe this, lift something heavy. In doing so you automatically take a deep breath and are enabled, by holding it in, to exert extraordinary strength. In running or swiming, you get an amazing "second wind". In moments of shock, terror, or astonishment you automatically suck in an enormous gulp of air -- you gasp! -- and the brain is thereby enabled to click like lightning, racing to solve the problems and seek out all angles necessary to escape or correct action. Ordinarily the brain flows slowly along the river of awareness, but that sudden intake of air -- that rapid inhalation ----- enables it to greatly increase its efficiency. The brain itself, of course, is a phenomenal machine anyway. It adjusts the human body to millions of situations with which lower classes of life could never begin to cope. But the body itself perform astounding feats. For instance, it can give birth under practically any and all conditions, and sustain the product of that birth against all hazards. In Lima, Peru, a four year old girl named Linda Medina gave birth to a son. The son is now 15 months old and the mother is six. Cases have been recorded going to the opposite extreme, where men over 100 have father children, and women approaching 100 have been mothers. Near this city a woman recently gave birth to a two headed child, which still lives. The second head was removed shortly after birth and only a balloon-like appendage at the rear of the remaining head remains as a vestige of this single abnormality among millions of abnormalities -- such as Cyclops babies, three-legged babies, etc., etc., etc. Near this city, also, a man received over 1000 shots in the face and lived, losing not his life, but an eye, Another man hiccoughed for over four months without ceasing. Ripley has produced several men who never sleep. Truly, the human body is a marvelous thing. A merry-go-round of words, and you're right back where you started. THE END - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - COMET NEWS After experimenting on the illustrations in the first three issues of the COMET, editor Orlin Tremaine has decided that the April issue will contain illustrations only by Forte, Paul, and Mirando. In order to adjust production dates, it was necessary to omit a February date line and substitute a March dating on the third issue. This does not, however, indicate any skipping of issues. The April issue will carry stories by P. Schuyler Miller, Frank B.Long, Karl Selwyn, Eando Binder, and J. Harvey Haggard. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Coming!: Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Critique, by Louis Russell Chauvenet
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From The Star Port Page 10 SOUTHERN STAR stand excessively high altitudes or deep-sea pressures as do queer insects of the upper air found inhabiting the highest Himilayas or lantern-bearing fish cruising along the slimy ocean bottoms -- but it's very adaptable. It takes in about 34 pounds of air every 24 hours and utilizes this air in a variety of ways far more complex than the ways employed by insects. For example, the air contains a galvanic source of energy capable of giving humans extra strength in times of stress. If you don't believe this, lift something heavy. In doing so you automatically take a deep breath and are enabled, by holding it in, to exert extraordinary strength. In running or swiming, you get an amazing "second wind". In moments of shock, terror, or astonishment you automatically suck in an enormous gulp of air -- you gasp! -- and the brain is thereby enabled to click like lightning, racing to solve the problems and seek out all angles necessary to escape or correct action. Ordinarily the brain flows slowly along the river of awareness, but that sudden intake of air -- that rapid inhalation ----- enables it to greatly increase its efficiency. The brain itself, of course, is a phenomenal machine anyway. It adjusts the human body to millions of situations with which lower classes of life could never begin to cope. But the body itself perform astounding feats. For instance, it can give birth under practically any and all conditions, and sustain the product of that birth against all hazards. In Lima, Peru, a four year old girl named Linda Medina gave birth to a son. The son is now 15 months old and the mother is six. Cases have been recorded going to the opposite extreme, where men over 100 have father children, and women approaching 100 have been mothers. Near this city a woman recently gave birth to a two headed child, which still lives. The second head was removed shortly after birth and only a balloon-like appendage at the rear of the remaining head remains as a vestige of this single abnormality among millions of abnormalities -- such as Cyclops babies, three-legged babies, etc., etc., etc. Near this city, also, a man received over 1000 shots in the face and lived, losing not his life, but an eye, Another man hiccoughed for over four months without ceasing. Ripley has produced several men who never sleep. Truly, the human body is a marvelous thing. A merry-go-round of words, and you're right back where you started. THE END - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - COMET NEWS After experimenting on the illustrations in the first three issues of the COMET, editor Orlin Tremaine has decided that the April issue will contain illustrations only by Forte, Paul, and Mirando. In order to adjust production dates, it was necessary to omit a February date line and substitute a March dating on the third issue. This does not, however, indicate any skipping of issues. The April issue will carry stories by P. Schuyler Miller, Frank B.Long, Karl Selwyn, Eando Binder, and J. Harvey Haggard. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Coming!: Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Critique, by Louis Russell Chauvenet
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