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Baseball fights used to be common in the days when most ball players were uneducated yokels. Nowadays they are rare. Last really celebrated baseball fighter was famed Ty Cobb, who taught Pitcher Whitehill the technique when Whitehill joined Detroit in 1923. Although crowds enjoy imbroglios like last week's and though at- tendance is usually increased by such incidents, club-owners feel that in the long run they harm the game. Feuds between clubs are likely to last a long time. Last week's fight was really an aftermath of a squabble last summer when Carl Reynolds...
True to tradition the Leverett Hares produced the Maddest Hatters in M. J. Gibney '34, who polled 54 votes, and Matthew Cobb '35, a Lampoon editor, receiver of 51. The financial district about Wigglesworth, Straus, and Matthews halls opened weak in the early hours of polling, but rallied toward the close to give strong support to Strafford Wentworth '36 and G. B. Lauriat '36 with 35 votes each...
...Irvin S. Cobb paid for his memorable appendectomy many times over with the book he wrote about it: Speaking of Operations. Ring Lardner discovered last spring that the tedium of a sickbed could be profitably relieved by writing a radio colyum for the New Yorker, datelined "No Visitors, N. Y." Last week U. S. readers of the London Evening Standard perceived how an anonymous staffwriter aided by square-faced David Low, peerless New Zealand-born caricaturist, had made amusing copy out of Britain's influenza epidemic. The writer was personified as "the celebrated journalist Mr. Terry," a character assumed...
...problem of finding a second story with which to follow the symposium-picture, If I Had a Million. The Woman Accused has compromising situations by Ursula Parrott, faux pas by Polan Banks, neurotics by Vicki Baum, plumbing by Vina Delmar, further ingredients by Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Sophie Kerr. It turns out to be a surprisingly unified but solidly routine story about a pretty woman (Nancy Carroll) who, to spare the feelings of the man she loves (Gary Grant), has to murder the villain (Louis Calhern) by hitting him on the head...
Brain Energy. Little known facts about brains pointed out by Harvard's Stanley Cobb: the brain of a sedentary brain-worker uses up more energy when he works than do his legs when he exercises outdoors; blood flows through the brain arteries faster than through any part of the body except the eye retina; the pressure of cerebrospinal fluid on the brain is five or six times greater when a man lies prone than when he stands upright; "it seems probable that the brain has a rather high metabolism when compared to other organs or to the body...