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...event but in a discovery-a correspondent, a writer or an editor has an impression, based on his own experience, that an old tradition is no longer honored or that a new mannerism is in vogue. It is easy to confirm (or sometimes to knock down) his hunch by checking with our correspondents in all parts of the country, who often turn up significant sectional variations in U.S. behavior that add to the story. An editor's observation that more teen agers spend their summer vacations working than used to when he was in college provides some interesting statistics...
...Bruce scandal. And in 1892, a Parisian named Hector Giroux was so anxious to get his hands on the Hawaiian Missionary auctioned last week that he went to Fellow Collector Gaston Leroux, who had the stamp, and murdered him. When detectives finally picked him up on a hunch, Giroux confessed and surrendered the stamp...
Douglass was better treated than most. A mulatto, he had a hunch that his master was his father. At about the age of seven, he was loaned to his master's relatives in Baltimore, where his new mistress started to teach him to read until her husband grumbled that literacy would make the boy "unfit to be a slave." Douglass snitched books from the house and bribed little white boys to help him with the hard words. He scrawled letters on any available walls. Eventually he mastered the language and held classes to teach his fellow slaves. "Those...
...salts. But nobody had identified a hormone with such precise effects. He could only guess that it was one of the many produced by the outer cortex or "bark" of the adrenal glands which are astride the kidneys. In the early 1950s, other investigators confirmed Conn's hunch by isolating an adrenal hormone now called aldosterone and recognized as one of the most powerful of all the body's chemicals...
...sponsor of a bill, passed overwhelmingly by both branches of Congress, that would permit self-employed people to take tax deductions on their own pension programs. President Kennedy did not like the bill, since it would mean an unscheduled loss of tax revenue. Smathers had a strong hunch that the President meant to let it die by pocket veto. But Smathers also knew that he had the votes to override any veto-so long as Congress stayed in session. He therefore fought a shrewd delaying action against adjournment-and Kennedy finally signed the measure...