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...print: Communism. Conventioneers applauded when the Rev. Dr. George Johnson of the Catholic University of America told them that "Catholics recognize Communism for what it is ... a heresy. Whatever Communism creates ... is just so much machinery for eliminating God from human society!" They cheered again when Bishop John M. Gannon of Erie cried: ''Who knows, but that in the secrets of Divine Providence, the Spanish people, the victim on the altar of immolation, are today being called on as the nation to .decisively test and crush atheistic Communism...
...Wilmington, N. C. last August, Mrs. Annie Mae Gannon's cat littered in her boarding house. First came one normal, one tailless and one bobtailed kitten. Twelve hours later Mrs. Gannon's cat bore what looked like a splotched, botched Boston bull pup. Colored black, yellow and white, it had long, sharply pointed ears, short whiskers, stub tail, short doggish hair. Unlike cat or dog it was born with eyes open. And it could crawl at once. As it grew up it made noises like a cat, sniffed and gnawed bones like a dog. It rested with...
...neighborhood mongrel dog was blamed for the freak. Dog and mother cat had fought all through her gestation. Mrs. Gannon's neighbors argued that those fights had marked the kittens. Henry Sternberger, who photographed the catdog and named it Nonesuch, thought that cat and dog might have mated. In any case, decided he, this was a freak in which the American Genetic Association should be interested...
...dealing almost certainly with a genetic variation in this case, inherited as a recessive character, which characters ordinarily appear in the progeny of normal parents. (Feeblemindedness in humans behaves in the same way, as do a multitude of other characteristics.)" Editor Cook tried to get Mrs. Gannon's "catdog" for study. She refused, fearing that the animal might not be well cared...
Walter B. Gannon '96, George Higginson professor of Physiology in the Medical School, heads the Harvard Committee of students and faculty for Medical Aid to the Spanish Democracy, and he also is National chairman of a similar group. Included on the faculty committee are Edmund M. Morgan '02, acting dean of the Law School, Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Ralph B. Perry, professor of Philosophy, Austin W. Scott, Story Professor of Law, and many others...