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...Child. In 1925 Yale University got four chimpanzees for animal psychology research, encouraged them to breed. Now Yale has 40 apes. Last week Professor Milton C. Forster described a competition between young chimpanzees and two children lent by faculty members. Both apes and moppets were silently trained to release a telegraph key when stimulated in turn by a sight, a sound, a touch. The apes' reaction times were as fast as the children's. Even when the subjects were trained to a "choice response" (two keys, two stimuli) the animals held their own with the humans...
Homer Van Meter, 29, got his start robbing trains in his 'teens. He met Dillinger in Indiana State Reformatory in 1925. Van Meter became Dillinger's body guard, slugged doctors into treating his chief, robbed police arsenals with him, lent a hand in bank robberies...
...chain-drive International, a 1904 one-cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver roadster with hard tires on its buggy wheels, a 1906 Model N Ford, a 1908 Maxwell driven to the Fair by its owner. The cars had been lent by the Fair pageant Wings of a Century. The race was run on Friday the 13th. Driving a 1904 Maxwell carrying No. 13, Barney Oldfield, whose real name (Berna Oldfield) has 13 letters, won by chugging seven times around a 1,300-ft. course at an average speed of 13 m.p.h...
...This session of the 73rd Congress . . . provided for the readjustment of the debt burden. It lent a hand to industry. . . . It strengthened. ... It provided. . . . It made further advances. ... It supplemented. ... It took definite steps. . . . It created. . . . Finally, and I believe most important, it recognized, simplified and made more fair and just our monetary system...
...among their followers and preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled. Occasionally some of these men, their wives or daughters were painted for a posterity which was quick to forget them. Last week in the Worcester Art Museum a collection of such portraits was put on show. Lent by many a learned institution or lately found in many a dusty New England attic, the pictures were a ghostly recollection of pomp and triviality in the late American...