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Lesser men than he were among the seven U. S. Presidents whom Elihu Root has counseled. In 1908 his own qualifications for the Presidency were unequalled. Teddy said he would crawl on hands & knees from the White House to the Capitol to make Root President. Then he chose Taft as his successor. He knew, as Republican managers did again in 1916, that Statesman Root was simply not "available." He was too brilliant. Politicians had long since learned that the U. S. electorate distrusts high intellect and imperturbable calm...
...Professor William King Gregory of Columbia tracing the evolution of the pelvis from fish to man, beginning with the fact that fish have hip-bones-rudimentary little rods unattached to the backbone but helping to support rear fins. Further improvement of the pelvis enabled amphibians to crawl, later animals to walk on all fours, humans and ortho-grade primates to walk upright. (Once possessors of good hips, whales reversed the process, lost most of the pelvis by taking to the water...
...beacons are pale orange globes fixed atop seven-foot poles at intersections too minor to rate a stop-&-go light. They glow continuously, drive motorists wild by giving pedestrians continuous right of way. To get past a Belisha Beacon one must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
...until the President had a mind to go tiger hunting in the East and chanced to read Grew's account of the subject did Grew get his first break in the Service. Any young man who could crawl single-handed into a cave and dispose of a tiger, Teddy Roosevelt decided, deserved promotion. One of Grew's best jobs was done in Germany just before the War, shooting pheasants with the ebullient Kaiser and deftly restraining his own ebullient chief, Ambassador James W. Gerard...
...first two dogs returned briefly to life, died a second and final death. The third dog, which like its predecessors, has been put to death clinically and revived by chemical and mechanical means, did better (TIME, April 30 et seq.). Slowly Dog No. 3 learned to crawl, sit up on its haunches, eat, bark, snap flies. Last week it was eating 12 oz. of meat per day. But it could not stand alone, did not behave like the normal mongrel terrier it had once been. Lean, jet-haired Dr. Robert E. Cornish concluded that a taste of death had irreparably...