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Though Chang and Eng were the original "Siamese twins" exhibited by P. T. Barnum, they were not Siamese but Chinese. And though a popular impression persists that they died within a few hours of each other as an inevitable result of their physical union, this is not true, either. The facts were recorded in century-old medical records, but were generally ignored until Georgetown University's Dr. Worth B. Daniels browsed around a bookstore, came across a long-neglected autopsy report: Eng died of fright...
...breastbone, mainly by cartilage and ligaments which stretched and became so pliable that by the time the boys reached their teens they could stand side by side. When they were 32, the twins married Quaker sisters from Trap Hill Township, N.C.; Chang fathered ten children and Eng twelve. But despite their close tie and obvious similarities, the twins' temperaments and illnesses differed. Eng was abstemious; Chang was a tippler. In 1872, during one of his drinking bouts, Chang had a stroke that left him partly paralyzed...
...island's intelligence section, arrests an ancient is lander suspected of consorting with the enemy, waggles a thin Rathboney finger, and grimly begins to interrogate the dear old gentleman. The islander seems willing to talk but he can't talk English. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Eng lish and Japanese. The old man can't speak Japanese. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Japanese and Carolinian. The old man can't speak Carolinian. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Carolinian and a dialect called Charono. The old man speaks Charono. Back through the chain...
Half & Half. Gradually, over the last three decades, Robert Frost has abandoned the subject matter that made him famous - woods softly filling with snow, the birches and stone walls of New Eng land, the brook in the back pasture, the tang in autumn air at apple-picking time - and he no longer attempts the lyric intensity of his earlier works. Increasingly, he is content with sententious verse written with the negligent, remembered skill of a master craftsman. The old man is fascinated by the adventuring spirit of man. Many of his poems are half wisdom and half whimsy, and Frost...
...break-through in the top three would make matters more secure for the Crimson. At number one it will be Vie ("nice guys loss") Niederhoffer against gentleman Ralph Howe, the top intercollegiate, ranked in the nation's top ten. Although Howe beat Jim Eng (Princeton) who best Niederhoffer, the Crimson's top man may barge in to win the match if Howe shows signs of letting up. The Crimson's Paul Sullivan, at number two, and Lou Williams, at three, will be strong contenders...