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Shangri-la, issue 7, July-August 1948

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JUST A MINUTE by JEAN COX

[underlined] April 29th; 438th Consecutive Meeting: 

This meeting, we had a guest speaker, L. Ron Hubbard.
His untitled talk was about "...the future [immediately] before us..." He said: "During the last two or [three years], several things have happened that enable use to see [quite a] chunk of eternity."
Hubbard served as an officer in the United States [Navy] during the war. He was injured and had to receive [treatment] for his wounds. As has been recorded before, he [was dead for] eight minutes by the surgical clock, and was brought [back to] life by the use of several emergency measures.
Hubbard stressed the difficulty of obtaining books on medical subjects. Many of them cost as much as $25, and the best ones are all but unavailable. The layman, therefore, has a lot of trouble in satisfying his curiosity on matters medical, if he has such a curiosity. Hubbard had a consuming curiosity. He satisfied it only through perseverance and stratagem. Even then, he wouldn't have found out much, had he not had lots of time on his hands during a period of convalescence. 
After months of research, and a lifetime of picking up odd bits of knowledge, Hubbard has become convinced that man can be made to live a very long time. In fact, he is convinced that only a half-dozen prescriptions, if administered regularly and constantly, can produce "immortality." 
He mentioned the anti-reticular serum when the Russians are supposed to have. "Russia does have it, but they do not have testosterone in any appreciable quantities." He emphasized: "I want to point out that there is one man in the world today who is not getting any younger and that there is one nation that is not getting any softer because  its leaders are not getting any softer. That man is Joseph Stalin that country is Russia..."
Hubbard places great faith in the twenty-three amino acids. Too, he thinks testosterone very efficacious. He admits that some ways of introducing it into the body are inefficient, but declares that the stuff, if permitted to exercise its full effect, produces a very salutary reaction.
"It's the bio-chemist who's going to lengthen our life. If chemists and biologists are not interfered with, they will give to the world many cheap and easy ways to produce 'limited immortality.'"
He concluded: "By necessity, the doctor is only a practitioner, not a scientist. Therefore, there is a need for greater cooperation between fields of medicine and the scientific fields."
Ackerman told us the the [sic] Elmer Rice play, THE ADDING MACHINE, a fantasy, was showing at the Circle Theatre. He recommended it, and suggested that the club get up a party and go to see it. The idea was accepted, of course. ((Ed's Note: About 15 of us enjoyed seeing the play.))
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JUST A MINUTE by JEAN COX [underlined] April 29th; 438th Consecutive Meeting: This meeting, we had a guest speaker, L. Ron Hubbard. His untitled talk was about "...the future [immediately] before us..." He said: "During the last two or [three years], several things have happened that enable use to see [quite a] chunk of eternity." Hubbard served as an officer in the United States [Navy] during the war. He was injured and had to receive [treatment] for his wounds. As has been recorded before, he [was dead for] eight minutes by the surgical clock, and was brought [back to] life by the use of several emergency measures. Hubbard stressed the difficulty of obtaining books on medical subjects. Many of them cost as much as $25, and the best ones are all but unavailable. The layman, therefore, has a lot of trouble in satisfying his curiosity on matters medical, if he has such a curiosity. Hubbard had a consuming curiosity. He satisfied it only through perseverance and stratagem. Even then, he wouldn't have found out much, had he not had lots of time on his hands during a period of convalescence. After months of research, and a lifetime of picking up odd bits of knowledge, Hubbard has become convinced that man can be made to live a very long time. In fact, he is convinced that only a half-dozen prescriptions, if administered regularly and constantly, can produce "immortality." He mentioned the anti-reticular serum when the Russians are supposed to have. "Russia does have it, but they do not have testosterone in any appreciable quantities." He emphasized: "I want to point out that there is one man in the world today who is not getting any younger and that there is one nation that is not getting any softer because its leaders are not getting any softer. That man is Joseph Stalin that country is Russia..." Hubbard places great faith in the twenty-three amino acids. Too, he thinks testosterone very efficacious. He admits that some ways of introducing it into the body are inefficient, but declares that the stuff, if permitted to exercise its full effect, produces a very salutary reaction. "It's the bio-chemist who's going to lengthen our life. If chemists and biologists are not interfered with, they will give to the world many cheap and easy ways to produce 'limited immortality.'" He concluded: "By necessity, the doctor is only a practitioner, not a scientist. Therefore, there is a need for greater cooperation between fields of medicine and the scientific fields." Ackerman told us the the [sic] Elmer Rice play, THE ADDING MACHINE, a fantasy, was showing at the Circle Theatre. He recommended it, and suggested that the club get up a party and go to see it. The idea was accepted, of course. ((Ed's Note: About 15 of us enjoyed seeing the play.)) [page number centered] 11