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...abusive letter in his daily mail. He knew that his invalid son. best of his family, was dying. When Hallem's son brought him the news of his father's suicide and accused Roiter of having always felt contempt for Hallem, of needing his wretchedness as a foil for his own excellence. Roiter admitted it. When Roiter died, a few days later, he was a really great man at last. Side by side with this main narrative- the lifelong duel between Hallem who wanted to die and Roiter who was determined to live-are the hardly less moving...
...rich Annapolis graduate for whose Thompson Cup the U. S. Military and Naval Academies used to contest at football, agreed to furnish the prize. Last week's matches were regarded by U. S. swordsmen as second only in importance to the Olympics, were fought as usual with foil, epee and sabre, but the scoring system was slightly different from previous years. Each team put up four men in each event, each event to comprise 16 bouts. Each bout won counted two points to the winning team. Ties in epee counted a point apiece. Team with the highest total...
...Rosenthal's antidote is sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate, which changes the poison into less toxic mercurous compounds. It is administered through a stomach tube and intravenously. Dr. Rosenthal has saved every one of ten acutely poisoned humans, without appreciable kidney damage, hopes hospitals throughout the land will test his foil for suicides...
...plans. Her mother is Aryan, her father was a Jewish physician. Helene Mayer has been expelled from the Offenbach Fencing Club. She hopes nonetheless to fence for the 1936 German Olympic team. Slim, tall, flaxen-haired with charming manners and a smile as bright and sudden as her foil, she speaks English with no accent, an occasional ja. Last week she reproached photographers who asked her to pose in bright sunlight: "The last pictures in California were in the sun. They made my nose too long. Like Cyrano almost...
Called the oceanograph, the Rossby instrument has a stylus which makes a temperature-pressure graph on a sheet of smoked aluminum foil. The foil is moved back & forth by a barometer and tension spring hookup which keeps track of the water pressure (hence the depth). The stylus is moved from side to side by a bimetallic thermometer which keeps track of the temperature. Its creators state that the oceanograph is accurate to within one foot of depth and one-tenth of one degree Fahrenheit in temperature. It is to be used on the 142-ft. auxiliary ketch Atlantis, peripatetic research...