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Kansas this week approached her primary elections (August 2) as embarrassed as a family whose freak son is the only one who ever gets his picture in the newspapers. Numerous normal politicians were running for office but the only candidate whose name the rest of the country heard was Rev. Gerald Burton Winrod. He is 39, a grey-eyed, deep-voiced radio spellbinder from Wichita, with black hair like William Jennings Bryan's, an evangelist whose congregation is "the entire United States and Canada." Because it looked last week as though Mr. Winrod might win the Republican nomination...
...Sterno and bay rum as thirst quenchers appealed to only a few U. S. citizens. Post-Repeal's more bizarre tastes run to such concoctions as orange gin, lemon gin and mint gin, products of London & Co., of Elizabeth, N. J., a distillery which has capitalized on the freak market. This year the company applied for a patent on "Liquorized Ice-Cream." As rich and thick as junket but tasting more like an Alexander cocktail, the mixture consists of 5% to 25% liquor (sloe gin, dry gin, rum, whiskey, cognac or Scotch...
...average sculler's 28 to 32), Joe Burk, who weighs 195 lb. and has arms like piano legs, propels his shell with an unorthodox short jerk of his arms and a quick kick of his legs, sits up almost straight at the end of each stroke. This freak style he developed two years ago on New Jersey's Rancocas Creek, hard by his father's fruit farm, after rowing in orthodox fashion on the University of Pennsylvania crew. He can row for miles at 40, can maintain a speed of 12 miles an hour over a mile...
...Ormesby Bank, four miles from Middlesbrough at the edge of the North York Cleveland moors, months of experiment were triumphantly concluded when an Soft, steel antenna caught 70 minutes of television program transmitted from Alexandra Palace through 220 miles of fog-thickened English air. Freak bounces of ultrashort waves have been recorded: Alexandra Palace signals have been picked up as far away as South Africa. But 50 miles has been the generally accepted limit for reception of reliable pictures...
...dark side of Dr. Greenwood's long and heavy labors is that most of Rhine's opponents do not think that the high scores reported are accounted for by a freak of chance, but by something else, such as sensory cues, collusion, clerical mistakes, or simply sloppy experimental procedure. Nevertheless, Duke University, which presumably approves of Dr. Rhine, rewarded Dr. Greenwood for his work by making him an assistant professor of mathematics...