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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Moscow last week came a dispatch that a two-headed, four-armed, single-bodied human female born last November still lives. Named Irina & Galina, on the principle that the heads have separate personalities, the dicephalous infant is reported to smile and to respond to her names. Irina & Galina is also noteworthy in that, unlike most monsters, she has a definite usefulness...
...This report would substantiate lay testimony about two other dicephalous monsters who lived briefly last century. Ritta & Christina born at Sassari, Italy in 1829, waked & slept, laughed & wept diversely, and caused religious people of the time to debate "whether she had two souls or one." Another Italian, Giovanni & Giacomo, born at Locarno in 1877, could not walk because each head controlled only the leg on its side of the common body. He never learned to place one foot in front of the other...
...spring of 1912 an English-born stripling named Alfred E. Lyon took a train from Canada to Manhattan to look for a job. Getting off at Grand Central Station with no knowledge of the city, no specific job in mind, he turned right on 42nd Street, presently reached Sixth Avenue. There he saw a handsome store with a large display of Melachrino cigarets in the window. He asked the clerk inside about Melachrino. "Sure," said the clerk, "that's a swell company. It's run by Mac McKitterick and Rube Ellis.'' A. E. Lyon went...
Soda Water to Shanghai. Otway Hebron Chalkley, born in Richmond some 50 years ago (he is even bashful about his exact age), was the only child of a prosperous, respected leather merchant. In Richmond he is remembered now as an expert player of bandy (a form of hockey), a proficient swimmer in the local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager...
...Born. To Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, England's No. 1 tennis amateur and Phyllis Konstam Austin; their first child, a girl, in London. Next day, after staying up late to welcome his daughter, Tennist Austin defeated California's Gene Mako in the fourth round of the Wimbledon Championships...