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...city Munich is almost 90% Catholic. Spiritually as well as physically the green-topped towers of Cardinal Faulhaber's cathedral dwarf Bishop Meisser's St. Matthew's. But Catholics in Bavaria fear for their freedom of worship no less deeply than Protestants. Next day more "Protestants" than the oldest Münchner could remember were on the streets...
...party found crude scrapers and knives made of limestone and volcanic rock. First evidence of an Old Stone Age culture in northern India, these implements were unearthed in a Pleistocene swamp deposit 500,000 years old. Other notable finds included fossils of land tortoises big enough to dwarf the Galapagos giants, and of four-horned ruminants bigger than rhinoceroses but related to giraffes...
...substance of "Come in at the Door: is woven around the effect, on the life of a sensitive and intelligent man, of witnessing as a child the horrible execution of a negro who in a fit of madness had beaten out the brains of a helpless dwarf. That the negro nurse of the child, Choster Hurry, is the mistress of his father and mother of his six dusky half-brothers and half-sisters, that the uncle with whom Chostor goes to live is tattooed all over his body and married to a syphilitic harlot who haggles with her husband nightly...
...family. Now and then he picked up a little money as a racetrack tipster, a baseball umpire, a film extra. Once he and his good friend "Kid McCoy," oldtime prizefighter and ex-convict, were in such straits that McCoy wheedled climes from a street crowd to view "the strangest dwarf in the world." When he showed them Sloan, McCoy explained: "I bet you never saw such a big dwarf in your life...
...British Columbia. Thence, with almost convincing regularity, have come tales of Okanagan Lake's "Ogopogo"-a mighty serpent "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog" (TIME, Aug. 15, 1932). And thence last week came two descriptions of a phantasmagoric sea serpent big enough to dwarf the 30-foot Ogopogo...