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Final result: "At eighteen years, this girl, who had been greatly handicapped by paralytic disability and crippling deformities, was by no means a perfectly efficient machine, but was then able to walk with one cane and a slightly raised shoe. Had she not been so decidedly overweight, she could probably have discarded the one cane. As it was, she said she could walk half a mile...
...Eighteen years ago Ethnologist Robert Heinrich Lowie began studying the Crow Indians on their reservation southeast of Billings, Mont. Although even then Crow culture clearly revealed white influence, Ethnologist Lowie found it still spiritually alive, with old customs enjoying respect if not observance. He was, moreover, able to compare his researches with those of previous investigators, could thus measure with some accuracy the extent and significance of changes resulting from contact with white civilization...
Fanatics. Eighteen disciples of Major Divine, Negro religious cultist whom disciples call "God," could not cease their ecstasy after his New York City "Garden of Eating" sessions. Yelping "It's wonderful," they hippety-hopped out of doors where police arrested them. When Psychiatrists Lauretta Bender & Zuleika Yarrel examined the prisoners, they found that 16 were mad. Considered possibly sane was a woman who refused to accept a widow's pension because "God will provide...
...wings while his Congressional stablemates (Representatives Sweeney of Ohio, Binderup of Nebraska, Lemke of North Dakota) went through their paces. At 9:40 the burly priest charged theatrically onto the platform, gave his Protestant friend, the Rev. Herbert Bigelow, an impulsive hug, strode up to the microphones. Eighteen thousand people jammed the hall. In the basement were some 7,000 more who had paid to hear Priest Coughlin through loudspeakers, see him for a few minutes after the main show. In the streets some 5,000 lackpenny Clevelanders cocked their ears to loudspeakers. A handful of Socialists carrying placards urging...
...only change so far from the lineup of the Princeton meet is in the 1500 and the 800 meters. Jack Scheu will run alone in the 1500, while Tony Bliss will accompany Bob Woodward in the 1600, Johnny Dorman limiting his efforts to the 1600-meter relay. Eighteen men in all will make the trip