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...goes home to more starvation. Down the long scale of disintegration he slips rung by rung. Three newspaper clippings end the book: one from Rochester. Minn, announcing the dollar-valuation of a human body's chemicals; one from Capetown, telling of a holocaust of storks killed in a freak hailstorm; one from Vienna, a sympathetic epitaph on Karl's suicide...
That was the main event on the card but what the crowd had really come to see was not the title match but an astounding 302 lb. freak named Frank ("Man Mountain") Dean whom Promoter Curley, always on the lookout for monstrosities, had found last year in Norcross, Ga. Before that, Man Mountain Dean, reared in Manhattan, had been an unsuccessful stevedore, a sparring partner whom Jess Willard used frequently to knock out. When he became a wrestler three years ago, Man Mountain Dean swore that he would not shave until he won the championship. He now has a bushy...
None of the many books about Brahms has succeeded in portraying him as other than a stuffy, big-bearded German who, as composers go, led an ascetic, uneventful life and by some freak of nature managed to write some of the world's greatest music. This week in a book described by Critic Lawrence Oilman as "the fairest and most balanced estimate of Brahms as man and artist that has yet appeared in any language," Brahms is presented in credible, life-like drawing.* To gather his material Author Robert Haven Schauffler traveled around Europe, talked with 150 people...
...CARNIVAL MURDER - Nicholas Brady-Holt ($2). Her throat cut by a dagger, the Fat Lady lies murdered in her tent. Rev. Eb. Buckle sloshes about in the rain, helping the constabulary. Beer, boiled beef and a bucket expose both the freak racket and the killer...
Tongue Sirs: Although a trifle less than 100 years old, I am an ardent reader of TIME, the most fascinating and informative of any of the magazines to which I subscribe, and if this characterizes me as a freak, I feel deeply complimented. For over 50 years I have bred, fed and sold thousands of spotted pigs from coast to coast. In the live stock world there is a slogan: "Mrs. Conrad has spotted the United States," and I have been the only president of a live stock record in this country. This misguided man Abbott, who, on my birth...