Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Always busy is the brain of Dr. Eduard Benes, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and recently the League's successful arbiter between Persia and Great Britain in their squabble over oil (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week Dr. Benes sprang something new: the abrupt and solid interlocking of three small European states into what may soon be considered a Great Power. Angry German editors even gave it a name: "RUMANOJUGO-SVAKIA...
Prizefighter Ernie Schaaf who died after his ring hammering from monstrous Primo Camera (TIME, Feb. 20) was buried at Wrentham, Mass, last week without his brain. His brain remained in Manhattan, scene of the fight, for medical legalists to determine just what caused the death. Primo Camera might have committed murder. Or Schaaf might merely have died during a crisis in his professional life. Jimmy Walker's brother Dr. William H. Walker, who was last week under charges of splitting fees on municipal medical work, had-as medical attache of the New York Boxing Commission-certified that Schaaf...
...coma. Dr. Philip Goodhart, professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia, came in on the case as consultant. He found Schaaf's left side paralyzed. The condition of the fighter's eyes confirmed the diagnosis of a deep-seated lesion in the right side of the brain. To relieve pressure and explore the injury Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Columbia brain surgeon, cut a 3 1/2 in. disk from the right side of Schaaf's skull. Only a small hemorrhage was visible. But there was much swelling...
Perhaps it was Bishop Cannon, whose brain Publisher William Randolph Hearst has called "the best in America," who was responsible for Mencken's diminishing fire on the religious booboisie. And perhaps it was his own tax bills which inspired Editor Mencken suddenly to start firing in his American Mercury last week, with all his oldtime noise but with not quite the cleverness of his oldtime savagery, at a new national target: the High Cost of Public Education...
...fight, recovered consciousness after 1 hr. and 45 min., developed an intracranial hemorrhage. Sports-reporters, incorrigibly skeptical about all Camera's doings, first described the knockout as a fake, hastily acknowledged its authenticity three days later when doctors operated to remove a blood clot from Schaaf's brain. Schaaf, 24, never rallied, died early next morning...