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...Petite Chaumiere, or The Little Thatched Cottage-since its name is international-was the scene of a notable saturnalia last week. La P'tite Chaumiere is indeed always well to the fore among the obscure but fashionable Parisian resorts of sophisticates who seek the dark, steep and tortuous streets ascending Montmartre when the hour is really too advanced for one to be seen elsewhere. As a novelty, La Petite Chaumiere combined the twin appeals of Sadism and Inversion, produced a "ballet" re-enacting the celebrated events of the recent Mesmin Case at Bombon. (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Indelicate | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

Macroscopically (to the naked eye) the whole brain is divided crosswise into two unequal, grossly wrinkled parts. The rear and lower part is the cerebellum, the chief duty of which is to regulate the automatic reflexes and movements, such as walking. The upper and fore part is the cerebrum, where thinking is done. It is by far the larger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...Dandy operated, the youth began last December to show strange symptoms. He was depressed, erratic, wanted to commit suicide. Hearing, sight and most other functions seemed not affected. But his conduct, his attitude towards life were. There was something wrong with his higher psychical centres (one at the fore end of each hemisphere), perhaps with only one of the two, although they are most intimately related. Physicians diagnosed his ailment as from a tumor which was pressing down upon the fore part of the right hemisphere of the cerebrum. They sent him to Dr. Dandy for confirmation of diagnosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...significant of the new attitude toward sport is the avowed intention to apply the resultant increase in funds "solely to maintenance and development of general athletic facilities and not to increasing the budgets of intercollegiate athletic teams." The idea of "athletics for all" has recently come noticeably to the fore in theory; here is a definite step toward putting this theory into practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS FOR ALL | 3/5/1926 | See Source »

...life line, Someone is sinking today; then found themselves refreshed in body with the chest exercise and in soul with the sentiment, they would wonder about famed Mr. Anonymous, the author so far as they knew. Last week the Boston Globe disclosed the man, pushed him to the fore, named him as the septuagenarian Rev. Edward S. Ufford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Life Line | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

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