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...Spartan boy who hid a fox under his shirt, never even winced when the fox bit him and kept on biting him, finally fell dead, still with a dead pan. Last week readers of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin wondered whether that Spartan boy was just a freak, after all-a child who could not feel pain. For the Bulletin told of two little Baltimore boys and a girl who were like the Spartan. Johns Hopkins' Drs. Frank Rodolph Ford & Lawson Wilkins discovered them, found that they stubbed toes, barked shins, broke bones, chewed fingers raw, lifted hot plates...
This pressure has been ascertained to be 30,000 pounds by workers in laboratories, but no explanation for this has been discovered at the present. It is a freak of nature that ice floats, for if it sank, summer would be here before the Charles River was clear...
...ordinary Wikker standards, the other brother, Handel, was a freak. A onetime whaling captain turned vicar, Handel was expelled from the church when he got a farm girl in trouble. When she died in childbirth he settled down in the poorest section of his native village, became a sort of father confessor to the poor as well as a friendly enemy to the shipowner who ran the town. Until he was 60 Handel spent his days in a quiet round of preaching primitive Christianity, writing amateur science, philosophizing with his cronies, combatting the blackening meanness of his brother and sisters...
With a feature in Technicolor, another in black and white, and a short especially compiled to answer the freak demand for old-time "silents," the current program at Loew's State and Orpheum should please just about every generation...
Sadly Cuba decreed two days' national mourning, dispatched the gunboat Patria for the bodies and a seven-man commission to investigate the freak accident. Promptly Mexico's Congress voted three planes, headed by their army air ace Colonel Roberto Fierro and carrying both Mexican and Cuban flags, to replace Cuba's lost squadron. The flight is due in the U. S. in January and reluctantly its sponsors realized that the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse had probably been brought nearer by misfortune...