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...International Physiological Congress in Stockholm, some 15 years ago, Monkey-Gland Specialist Serge Voronoff presented a paper on rejuvenation. Ajax denounced him with prompt violence. "I know the case of a 'rejuvenated man' in the United States," he began, "who felt young until he receifed his physician's bill. Dot vas so high he suddenly felt old again.'' Voronoff stalked out in a dudgeon, swore he would never attend another meeting where Dr. Carlson was present. But Ajax got a burst of applause and an enthusiastic kiss from a bearded French scientist...
...Monk and No Monastery. Dr. Carlson's most distinguished opponent is Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who tends to minimize the value of a scientific education. "Three hundred years ago said Ajax recently. "Hutchins vould haf been a monk in a monastery. I don't belief in retreating from de vorld. I belief in staying in it and mastering...
Once at a meeting, a number of faculty members charged the University with not giving certain of its teachers secure tenure of their jobs. President Hutchins claimed that this practice kept them on their toes. "Vot you mean." Ajax burst out, "is dot it keeps dem on deir knees...
Pounding forward in chase of a third, the Ajax began to ship water through her forward plates, was forced to reduce speed. In the murk before dawn she suddenly came on an Italian squadron of one heavy cruiser and four destroyers. Opening up again at long range, she staggered one destroyer with a shot through the hull. As the crippled destroyer lost way, another slipped her a towline, started spewing out a smoke screen. By now the Ajax (which the Italians claimed to have sunk) had begun calling up support. But before the heavy cruiser York could arrive, the faster...
...daybreak, British planes from an aircraft carrier spotted the Italians again, identified the cripple as the crack, 1,620-ton destroyer Artigliere. Believing British ships near, the other Italians abandoned the Artigliere and cut for home, as the York and Ajax arrived for the kill. The Italians began to abandon ship. "A few seconds later," said a British witness, "came the order for the York to finish her off. The crew were told to abandon ship, and floats were thrown overboard for them...