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...role was filled by William Schlumberger, an Alsatian hunchback who, until hitching up with Maelzel, was the second best chess player at the Café de la Régence in Paris. The machine might have conned its way across the country save for a brilliant detective named Edgar Allan Poe, who exposed the secret in 1836. Maelzel and Schlumberger both died two years later...
...another physician, Dr. Allan Ryan, editor of The Physician and Sportsmedicine, agrees that black athletes often have a greater leg-to-trunk-length ratio than whites, which gives them an advantage in activities requiring explosive force, such as sprinting and jumping. Dr. Lyle Micheli, director of the sport-medicine division of Children's Hospital, has made similar observations. In examining black children, he has found that they have relatively small muscle mass in their calves, but highly muscled thighs. Says he: "The combination of the two makes for very efficient running. But we don't know whether...
...Allan J. Arffa '77, a Lampoon editor, said yesterday the Lampoon party for 30 to 40 Lampoon staff members did not differ from the Lampoon's usual weekly parties...
...meeting last night with residents of Eliot House H-entry, Allan E. Heimert '49 House master, said students must receive permission 48 hours in advance to hold gatherings of more than five persons in their rooms, students present at the meeting said yesterday...
...Allan Campbell...