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...haste. Things she did not know: the life-span of a horse; the largest city in the U. S.; why the heart beats. If she were hunting a ball lost in a circular field and were, offered two ways of finding it, she would utilize the "inferior" one. An 8th grade student in school, she was found by Teacher Friendly's test (the standard Stanford-Binet test, said she) to have an Intelligence Quotient of 63-seven less than necessary to escape commitment. Teacher Friendly called Helen a moron, offered additional reasons why she should be sterilized: "The girl...
...Gleason batted for Beale in 8th inning. ANDOVER ab r h po a e Woodlock, s.s. 4 1 0 3 1 0 Darling, l.f. 2 1 0 1 0 0 Howard, r.f. 3 0 1 1 0 0 Meighen, 3 b. 3 1 1 0 2 1 Foreman, 1b. 4 1 1 13 0 1 Kettle, c.f. 4 0 1 2 5 0 Raynor, 2b. 3 0 0 2 5 0 O'Neil, c. 3 1 1 5 0 0 Cates...
...York Giants, with a cyclonic explosion of 20 hits, 14 of which came in the 5th and 8th innings: a ballgame with the Phillies in Philadelphia...
Married. Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 24, Earl of Lincoln, onetime drummer in a London jazzband, son &heir of the 8th Duke of Newcastle, and Mrs. Jean Banks Gimbernat, Manhattan socialite divorced last year in Reno; in Manhattan. In 1902 his father sold the family's most famed possession: the blue Hope diamond, reputed to bring doom upon all who own it (said to have been the property of Queen Marie Antoinette, who was beheaded, it now belongs to the separated Edward Beale McLeans of Washington...
...13th Century referred to by Victorian professors as the dark ages, U. S. collections have scarcely anything but a few fragments of Romanesque sculpture, an occasional porphyry column or bit of mosaic. This period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century enamel plaque bearing a pop-eyed head of Christ. Latest is a silver relic cross made in 1483. Most important artistically is a casket reliquary in the form of a Byzantine church of gold, walrus ivory and brilliant enamel which once held the dried skull of St. Gregory...