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...James Gardner of Cleveland described the fate of a young woman who had one-half of her brain cut out because of a tumor. Amazingly, she lost neither To hostesses, a "natural." sight, speech, intellect or ability to move about. Yale's Dr. Arthur Meyer Yudkin reported that cod-liver oil and Vitamin A concentrate are effective remedies for the impaired vision which follows excess smoking and drinking...
Troy had a Palladium. Diomedes and Ulysses stole it. We know what happened to Troy. Boston had a Palladium, the Sacred Cod. It is or was a pine codfish, four feet eleven and a half inches long, ten inches thick at its thickest, clad in silver. It was a work of the eighteenth century. It hung happily in the old State House till 1793, when it was moved to the House of Representatives in the Bulfinch State House. In 1895, when the House emigrated to a new chamber, four messengers bore it, enfolded in the American flag...
...That Cod was the pilgrim's pride. It was Commerce. It gave its name to local Aristocracy. It never shivered its timbers in generations of debate. Not New England rum in its prime was dearer or more venerated. For the last thirty-eight years it rested easily on wires. Corinthian columns were near it. Above it were illustrious names, such as Parkman, Motley. Beneath it, of late, has been Speaker Saltonstall. So fortunate a fish wouldn't have swum away of itself. Somebody from the gallery prigged it on Wednesday. The ingenious Cantabrigians of The Lampoon and The CRIMSON were...
...have inspired the crime? So the lovers of old sanctities asked. Whoever did this deed is no common criminal. He has committed sacrilege. He has pillaged a shrine. Not since the mutilation of the Hermae at the other Athens has such an infamy been perpetrated. Friday the Cod was returned. Where is the Codnapper? --New York Times...
...under various play doctors' care since 1927, when Mr. & Mrs. Matson first wrote it. Its ills are still uncured. To begin with, the play is not named after the central character of the piece. Central character is Stephen Rolf, a prolix worthy who lives and paints on Cape Cod and goes about in a windbreaker. His brother, sensitive Karl, is the cartoonist of the family, having created a comic strip character named "Muggs," who always is defeated in the last picture...