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Often surprising are the brain's reactions to violent injury. A prize exhibit of Harvard's bright & cheery Warren Anatomical Museum, into which the public cannot get, is the Crowbar Skull. The foreman of a crew of Vermont road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25, lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence. The Museum has a plaster model of his head, and the actual crowbar...
...Fred is foreman of a big cotton plantation. Aun Fan, a midwife, "catches" the plantation hands' pickaninnies when they are born. Except for Big Pa, Blue's mother's wonder-working grandfather who back in Africa had been great King Taki's oldest son, Cun Fred and Aun Fan are the most influential people in the settlement. With them Blue's father, going farther afield himself, leaves Blue to make his home and fend for himself...
...Tweed Ring was his greatest campaign. In 1870 the Ring, consisting of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, Peter Barr ("Brains") Sweeney, Richard B. ("Slippery Dick"') Connolly, Mayor A. ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, ruled New York without question. Bearded, bleary-eyed Boss Tweed, who began his career as nose-punching foreman of the Americus or Big Six Fire Co., was Commissioner of Public Works; Brains Sweeney was the lawyer; Slippery Dick was Comptroller of Public Expenditures; Elegant Oakey was the Ring's social front. Their methods were childishly simple. New York's books were never shown to anybody. The Ring simply charged...
...American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers marked him so at their annual meeting in Manhattan last week. With International Correspondence School instruction Ora E. Clark was, at 19, chief chemist for a small Pennsylvania blast furnace. At 35 and with several years of night schooling he is chief chemist, foreman and blast furnace superintendent of the Hamilton Coke & Iron Co. When the Hamilton furnaces operate (they have been cold since November), he runs them at remarkable efficiency. The thing iron-masters chiefly appreciate in his work is the instruction he gives them about coke. There is a best shape...
Score--Eliot 13, Leverett 6. Goals--Eliot: Inglish 5, Foreman, Tisdall; Leverett: Beardsly 2, Johnson...