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Daisy-&-Violet Hilton are a pygopagus, a double-monster joined at the buttocks. They say that the bones of their lower spines and hips are fused and that the same blood courses through both bodies. Invoking shyness, they refuse medical or x-ray examination. Presumably if Violet were to bleed to death, Daisy would also be fatally drained of blood. But, strangely, three weeks ago Violet had a bad cold and fever. Yet Daisy ran no fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pygopagus Marriage | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

BACHELOR-OF ARTS-John Erskine- Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Story of Columbia undergraduates by a Columbia graduate. GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS-James Hilton- Little, Brown ($1.25). Long short story of an English school. Schoolmasters give it a good hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jun. 18, 1934 | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...Hilton Scholarship: H. B. Slade of New Britain, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Students Receive $27,600 in Fellowships, Chiefly For Study Abroad | 6/2/1933 | See Source »

...Gawd, this job is no snap, believe it or not," grunted Theodore Hilton, domestic at a well-known country club in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Hilton was still puffing from his exertions in preventing three merry youths at the dance from pouring punch down the bass horn. They're good, spirited lads I used to get that way myself once," he murmured sadly. "These winter dances are hard work for as waiters: we sure earn our pay. For instance, inside of ten minutes tonight I had to run down cellar and turn off a carbon dioxide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Country Club Waiter Marvels at Antics of Ebullient Youth At Terpsichorean Frolics--Thinks Debs Lack Something | 1/18/1933 | See Source »

...Hilton locked out over the floor crowded with the flower of Boston's womanhood. "Well," he reflected, "as I often say to my wife, I can't blame the boys for cutting up a bit at these debutante parties, there isn't much temptation for them to dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Country Club Waiter Marvels at Antics of Ebullient Youth At Terpsichorean Frolics--Thinks Debs Lack Something | 1/18/1933 | See Source »

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