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...solidly respectable, 85-year-old farmer named Robert E. Bunker died last week at his home on the outskirts of Mount Airy, a rural community in North Carolina. He was the last of twelve children of Eng, half of the once-famed pair of Siamese twins displayed throughout the nation by Showman P. T. Barnum in the early 19th Century...
...Moby Dick is written on three levels." (Eng...
...delivery is difficult, there are few live births in such cases; most liveborn joined twins die in infancy. But medical history records perhaps twoscore cases which have reached maturity, usually joined at or near the rump, where fewest organs are affected. Most famed were the Chinese brothers Chang and Eng. Because they were born (1811) in Siam, P. T. Barnum billed them as "The Siamese Twins," and the name has stuck to all their kind. Chang and Eng retired on their circus earnings to North Carolina, took the name of Bunker, married sisters (not twins), had many children, and died...
Four American Landscapes (Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles, Werner Janssen conducting; Artist Records, 8 sides). Includes music by Henry Cowell, Aaron Copland and Henry F. Gilbert, but chiefly worthwhile for Charles Ives's remarkable, polytonically placid Housatonic at Stockbridge, from his Three Places in New Eng land (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948). Performance and recording: fair...
...Gerald Butler, published in 1940 in Eng land, where it sold 232,000 copies. Two U.S. re prints since 1946 have sold some 400,000 copies...