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“You have become a demigod!” Mind Over Matter by Raymond Z. Gallun Illustrated by M. Marchioni I F ever I am badly injured, take me to Dr. Toussaint. If ever, after an accident, the company physicians pronounce me dead, take me to Dr. Toussaint anyway." This was one of Lloyd Jorgensen's favorite sayings spoken half humor-ously, half ruefully, yet with a deep un-dercurrent of seriousness and respect. For you see Lloyd Jorgensen was a crack test flyer for the Hartman Rocket Plane Corporation. He was the biggest, quietest, and probably the nerviest cuss in the outfit, and he knew what his job meant. He knew also Dr. Pierre Tous-saint. Their comradeship was based on mutual admiration, the one for the other. Toussaint admired Jorgensen for his cold, reckless courage and for his almost heroic proportions and phy-sique. As for Jorgensen, the dapper little savant aroused in him a feeling that was close to awe. Nor was the emotion unfounded. To the test flyer, and in fact to the world at large, Toussaint was not a mere sci-entist; he was something of a wizard. And yet a restless, ruthless energy drove him on with the spirit of the con-queror, seeking new fields to bow to his will. His brain, keen and quick as an electric spark, was of the kind with which the world |
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