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Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo, was born in 1860 with (it would appear) a hole in his head. It was by no means the usual cranial gap of infancy but, according to those who had felt it, a "perceptible hole." Though markedly intelligent, he never caught hold at school. He quit at 15 and bounced about such places as Oxford, probably on allowance from his father, a piano manufacturer. At 26, after taking a few places as schoolmaster, he was converted to Roman Catholicism and entered preparation for the priesthood...
...Harold R. Pratt-Thomas and Dr. Knute E. Berger, admitted that they were baffled, but they strongly suspected that violent stretching and bending of the head might account for it. Said they: "[The blood vessels] could have been damaged by manipulations that forcibly brought them into contact with the cranial case...
Died. Raymond Leslie Buell, 49, author (Isolated America, Poland: Key to Europe], 1933-39 Foreign Policy Association president, research worker for Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign; of a pulmonary embolism after a cranial operation; in Montreal. Long an insistent internationalist, Ray Buell had been a TIME, Inc. foreign-affairs adviser since...
Having put this point across the chic blonde whose personal appearance belies her cranial capacity leaned back and lit her fourth cigarrette. She explained that she would not be able to come up to Harvard to speak in support of the Hoover Plan because she and her hus-husband. "Time"-publisher Henry Luce, were leaving the following week for Chung-king...
...looks for the significance of 1) cranial changes in human evolution. 2) cranial differences among men today. The significance is harder to detect than the differences. Eskimos have bigger heads than white men but are little if any brighter. The three largest skulls on record belong to an Aleutian Islander (capacity: 2,005 c.c.), an Algonquin "contemporary" of Pocahontas (2,200 c.c.), Russian Novelist Ivan Turgenev (2,030 c.c.). Recently Dr. Hrdlička examined the heads of 150 members of the National Academy of Sciences, which the Smithsonian calls "one of the most distinguished intellectual groups in the world...