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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico far surpasses all other Latin-American States in the pursuit of Crime. Ever since the Spanish Conquest, notably tough individuals variously known as "rebels," "bandits" or "leaders" have led private armies against the forces of law & order. They always have a base village where they are beloved. They live off the land, sack isolated villages for food and women. Today they concentrate in the central and western States surrounding Mexico City. Through Puebla and Morelos roams El Tallarin, one of the most famed of living bandits. Jalisco belongs to Lauro Rocha. In Durango operates Francisco Vasquez. In Guanajuato until...
...South Bend, Ind., where he sang in the Baptist Church, hung around the Notre Dame football field to run errands for the late Knute Rockne, learned to talk and dress like a college boy. Six years ago, when he was 18, he went to Los Angeles to live with his sister. His brother-in-law persuaded him to try professional boxing in 1932. Last year, when Joe Louis arrived in Los Angeles to fight Lee Ramage, he offered Leroy Haynes a job as sparring partner. Haynes refused, offered to fight Louis instead. Louis' managers countered with an offer...
...play to the medical profession has proved almost as good promotion as the discovery in some old Philip Morris copy of a picture of a bellhop over the caption, "Call for Philip Morris." The best live bellhop in Manhattan was then found in the person of a dwarf named John Roventini, whose bellhopping ability was famed far beyond the Hotel New Yorker, where he worked. He is now 25, weighs 54 lb., stands 3 ft. 7 in. high. Known far & wide as Johnnie Morris, he pipes his call over :he radio, passes out packs of cigarets at Banquets, luncheons, openings...
...ambulance doctor. "Coronary thrombosis," reports the autopsist. "A blood clot clogged one of the principal blood vessels of the heart muscle and caused it to fail," explains the family doctor. Not every victim of a heart attack dies instanter. But doctors almost universally are pessimistic about a heart victim living long thereafter. And the survivors live in continual apprehension...
Seven men suffer coronary thrombosis to one woman. Women are stricken later in life than men. A first attack kills them more often than it does men. But, if a woman survives such a heart attack, she may expect to live three years longer than a man similarly stricken and surviving. Dr. Willius finds it "difficult to understand the reasons for the great discrepancy in incidence of coronary thrombosis between the two sexes. After a critical analysis of the known factors, one is obliged to seek a possible explanation in the presumable superior biologic heritage of the female...