When Disk Jockey Peter Tripp of Manhattan's radio station WMGM got the idea of going without sleep for 200 hours as a publicity stunt for the March of Dimes, medical science could not have been less interested. But psychiatrists and psychologists were persuaded that the effort might pay off with valuable scientific datapossibly useful all the way to outer space, where an astronaut might have to stay awake a long time. Last week Disk Jockey Tripp finished his insomniac marathon in a warming glow of scientific gratitude for a mountain of data. No man had ever stayed awake so long under...
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