Donovan's Brain

Suspense! An hour of suspense! A full 60 minutes at this time, with the distinguished actor-director Mr. Robert Montgomery, as your host. Tonight our star, Mr. John McIntyre, our story, Donovan's brain. A suspense play produced, edited and directed, William Spear.

Mr. Montgomery. The man across the table was talking about shaved heads and electricity, and I was listening. I'll have to admit it, I'm pretty much of a layman when it comes to things like that.

I imagine you are too. But the man I was talking with was a specialist. I sought him out after we decided on our suspense play for tonight, as you know we're doing Donovan's brain, and the man across the table who discussed shaved heads and electricity with such final authority was an eminent brain surgeon.

Now I don't know very much about the human brain, I have one and I use it occasionally I hope, but I leave the clinical knowledge up to the brain specialists, like the man across the table.

To this man of science I posed the momentous question, what about the brain? And he started in. Your brain he said is something less than two and a half percent of your total body weight.

There's no relation between the weight of your brain and your intelligence. There is no relation between the size of your brain and your intelligence. So we threw out size and weight and talked about what you could tell about a person's intelligence simply by looking at his brain.

And it develops you can tell quite a lot by looking. An intelligent person's brain is more complex in appearance than a stupid person's. It has more grooves and depressions, convolutions he called them. Well, that was all right with me.