"Sleepless tests" conducted upon students at George Washington University (TIME, Aug. 24) came to a close after all those tested had maintained a state of voluntary insomnia for 60 hours. Two of the students, Watson Monroe and Lester Petrie, continued without sleep for 20 hours more. Then, still protesting that they "felt fine," they were bundled off to bed.
Assembled the physicians, psychologists, statisticians to consider the results of the test. Two results seem to be of possible importance. It appears that an increase in the white blood corpuscles (disease germ eaters)...
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