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...Orleans last December the A. A. A. S. meeting at Syracuse last week was intellectually and physically headless. To New Orleans did not go retiring President William Hunt Morgan of Caltech or incoming President Franz Boas of Columbia. Both were seriously ill. Last week President Boas, still ill, was in Europe. By habit the A. A. A. scientists mustered gumption for the reading of a few papers...
...make researches of inestimable value to History. Dr. Johnson might be summoned to tell the true story of Cock Lane. With Banque, Hamlet and Poor Yorick new worlds of Shakespearean lore could be revealed, but perhaps there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this. The headless Horseman and Byron's last appearance to Sir Walter Scott could be reenacted...
...many a rousing hymn (favorite: "Touch Not the Cup") and a Big Free Magic Lantern Show presented by Grand Diapason Shafer, the meeting adjourned. History- "Chet" Shafer, an amateur student of Americana, collector (at his home in Three Rivers, Mich.) of old shaving mugs, cross-stitch mottoes, cuspidors and headless wooden Indians, wrote for the Saturday Evening Post in 1926 an article called "The Pipe Organ Pumper"- wherein he recalled...
Many a strange and wonderful thing happens in California. When the Sacramento River near Rio Vista?40 mi. northeast of Oakland?receded fortnight ago, the headless body of a young Hindu was found sitting bolt upright, chained to a tractor wheel. He was identified as Sant Ram Pande, 32, engineering student at the University of California. The method of his identification was remarkable. Only three weeks prior he had insisted that his fingerprints be recorded by the State Bureau of Criminal Identification. He had then set out to find the slayers of 13 Hindus who have been murdered...
...President Curtis promptly named a special investigating committee of five Senators: California's Johnson, Maryland's Goldsborough, Missouri's Patterson (Republicans), and Washington's Dill, New York's Wagner (Democrats). To finance the inquiry into 35 senatorial campaigns the Senate allowed $100,000. The committee was almost immediately rendered headless by the resignation of Senator Johnson as chairman. His official excuse: "My time is so wholly occupied with my duties that it is utterly impossible for me to undertake additional tasks." Suspected reason: an unwillingness to take the lead in stirring up possible G. 0. P. campaign scandals like those...