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...worker, a supporter of woman's rights. She is a descendant of five immigrants who came over on the Mayflower. Yet some of the New England aristocracy, not to mention the aristocracy of the South, last week felt that her ancestors must have come over in the steerage from Leningrad...
Thought Waves. In Leningrad, Professor Vladimir Behterev, of the Leningrad Academy of Science, claimed great advances in the detection of electro-magnetic waves from the human body. "Thought waves," i. e., ether waves broadcast by the cerebral nerve centres, were alleged to have been received with sensitive apparatus in 70% of the experiments made. Men were said to be better receivers of transmitted thoughts than women. "The more accomplished a man is, the better he transmits and the worse he receives." It was not reported how the thought waves, when detected, were translated from meaningless physical effects into intelligible human...
Nicholas. Despatches reported that the entire staff of the Leningrad newspaper Krasnya were clapped into jail last week as accomplices in the publication of an article wherein the present Soviet Ambassador to Poland, M. Wykoff, is specifically charged with having poured quantities of sulphuric acid over the corpses of Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family, after they had been shot dead at Ekatemburg, Russia, by Commandant Yurovski, former Tsarist officer...
...Leningrad the notorious "imagist poet," Sergei Yessenin, onetime husband of famed danseuse Isadora Duncan, slashed his wrists with the gesture of suiciding Roman Caesars and hanged himself...
Died. Sergei Yessenin, poet-husband of U. S. Dancer Isadora Duncan, a suicide at Leningrad...