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...Linton Perry, little Negro boy who lives on a farm south of Macon, Ga., is not smart for his eleven years. Nor can he read or write. But he can do what no other person in the U. S. and only one other (a Cuban) in the whole world, so far as is known, can do. He can pop his right eye out of his head, and draw it back into its socket. If that does not startle the beholder, he will pop out the left eye, then jerk the pair alternately in and out, like the boy & girl...
...Linton Perry's most awesome trick is to pop both eyes at once. Then he looks like a chubby lobster ready to go plop into a pot of boiling water. He accomplishes the feat by squnching up the muscles around his eyes...
...James Allen Smith, young eye specialist who recently opened offices in Macon, discovered Linton Perry's binocular ambivalence, reported him to Medicine, last week answered queries on the case. By all tests the boy can see just as well whether either or both eyes are in or out of their sockets. But when he first learned his performance, he saw double...
...bare, lifeless clay knoll surrounded by abandoned coal diggings on the farm of Charles Elkins near Linton, Ind. last week attained national distinction. In Washington the Census Bureau designated it as the dead centre of U. S. population as revealed by the 1930 enumeration. So proud and happy were the 5,077 citizens of Linton to know that an equal number of U. S. people lived in every direction from them that their Rotary Club planned to march the 2 9/10 mi. northeast to the Elkins farm and erect a marker. The knoll's location was given technically...
...force the nets. SPRINGFIELD HARVARD '34 Bishop. g. g., Johnson Peabody, e.p. e.p., Eagleton Pretka, p. p. Holsapple, Fields Reylea, 1d. 1d., Rogers Davidson, Roberts, Miller, 2d. 2d., Althouse, Clapp, Wilbur Thompson, Cant, 3d. 3d., Rabinovitz, Townshend Taylor, c. c., Levan, Topalian Fisher, 3a, 3a., Sise, Merrit, Merry Linton,2a 2a.,Lowe, Higgins, Reed Hubbard, la. la.,Housem Lewis, o.h. o.h.Lessig Townsend, l.h. l.h.,Lowery...