The Silent Sphinx

The writer sometimes wonders how long his heart will hold out. He quotes an article in the Herald Tribune on the studies of Dr. Isaac Starr, a research professor of therapeutics at the Univ. of Penn. & former dean of its medical school, who uses the analogy of the human body & the heart to the automobile & the engine. The writer recalls the year 1916, when his 1st cousins, the Flournoy boys, bought a Sphinx automobile. He describes the typical Sunday afternoon drive around Washington, the trouble with the automobile & its very last year in his hands. He figures that he'll continue to get along until his differential drops out.

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