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...North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh last week, Negro Henry Grier, condemned to death for murdering his wife, was led out to say good-by to his prison mates. He jerked away from his guard, raced up two flights to a balcony, plunged down to the concrete 30 ft. below. Two hours later Henry Grier, crushed, bleeding and unconscious, was carried to an electric chair, executed...
...hormonal preparation. Dr. William Bosworth Castle, 38, associate professor of Harvard's School of Medicine; the Procter Award of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science: for showing that pernicious anemia may be due to inefficient digestive juices. Isaiah Bowman, 57, president of Johns Hopkins University; the Henry Grier Bryant Gold Medal of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia: for being "scholarly and original in research, philosophical in his thinking, and concerned with the influence of geography on institutions and on society." Lewis Buckley Stillwell, 72, consulting engineer, onetime Westinghouse researcher; the Edison Medal (an award founded by friends and associates...
...When Grier, a young Englishman on his travels, arrived in Japan, Tokyo's streets were still full of rickshas. Though Japan had beaten Russia and was beginning to emulate the West in other ways, its civilization was still essentially Oriental. Grier found it a quaint, delightful country. Its manners charmed, its emotions baffled, its women fascinated him. To his discovery that "in their attitude to sex the Japanese are a millennium ahead," a skeptical fellow-foreigner retorted that emotionally they were an incarnation behind. Grier could not be sure, set himself to solve the puzzle by falling in love...
...Kaya San, who lived next door to Grier in the hotel, first attracted his attentions. But when he found his progress imperceptible he went to see Chika. an acrobat who had traveled from Europe on his boat. Chika's villainous father wanted to sell her to Grier, and she would not really have minded, but since Grier did not fall in with the idea she let her father put her in a brothel. Grier soon forgot her when he met O Setsu San. the lovely interpreter at an inn called The House of the Playful Kitten. Then an earthquake...
Sweeping aside Kingstown's few policemen, hoodlums tore through the streets, caught Governor Grier squarely in front of the courthouse. Only by promising to meet and talk with the strike leaders was Sir Selwyn released, but jabbering blacks wrecked his car as well as those of Supreme Court Judge Williams and Attorney General Ross...