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The boy's nose is 2 in. wide. His hands are a foot long. His fingers are double jointed and, comments Dr. Humberd, "curl themselves up in bizarre positions and assume ungainly and gruesome postures." His feet "are disproportionally large and he is very flatfooted. His toes are misshapen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alton Giant | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Consider, said Dr. Gregory, the horse. The legs are like towers at each end of a bridge, the backbone is an arched cantilever system suspended from the towers, the chest and abdomen constitute the "live load." At the front end is an apparatus which can be raised and lowered like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Savants in Chicago | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

In the 1920's he was the No. 1 gadfly of successive Republican Administrations. Equipped with a deep, mellow drawl, a sharp Southern wit, the tall, loose-jointed Mississippian drew a laugh, scored a hit almost every time he rose to tease, tweak, twit and torment the party in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxmaster | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Dr. Jackson, while not the first man to peer down the trachea and esophagus, perfected the circus sword-swallower's technique of throwing back the head so far that mouth, throat and windpipe or gullet form a straight channel through which a straight metal tube can be slipped. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bronchoscopist | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Last week Senator Hugo Lafayette Black chose to give this whole delicate question a public airing in his Senate Lobby Investigating Committee.* Up for investigation was John Henry Kirby's Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution. First witness was fat, freckled old John Henry Kirby, Texas oil and lumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black on Blacks | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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