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Since the great day when Aesop's tortoise nosed out the over-confident hare, turtle racing had come a long way. Last week a 25-year-old terrapin named Arkansas Express ran away with Loyola University's first turtle derby. He was bought in a fish market a month ago, and trained by pre-med students, who used Pavlov's theory of the conditioned reflex. Main feature: the "gait-straightener"-a practice track with a picture of a heron on one side, a pike on the other (both are natural enemies of the turtle...
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, "the Saint of Will Power," was "crowned with the halo of holiness because he fought for it with all his might." To the mighty organization he founded and led, the Society of Jesus, he bequeathed the rule: to be "all things to all men" in order to win all. Ignatius' disciples-the Jesuit missionaries, diplomats, scientists, economists, lawyers-became the most skilled, determined, and often the most feared religious brotherhood in history...
Many of the world's famous and infamous men have been epileptics: St. Paul, Mohammed, Moses, Luther, Loyola, Alexander, Caesar, Peter the Great (see BOOKS), Napoleon and possibly Hitler.-In the Medical Record, Brooklyn's Dr. Edward Podolsky explains why epilepsy may be a spur to greatness. Epileptic fits result from a disturbed electrical equilibrium in the brain. Electrical energy continually piles up in the cortex (brain covering), is discharged at irregular intervals in fits. Many epileptics are nobodies, but the brilliant ones drive themselves like maniacs while the energy piles higher & higher...
...Chicago's Medical Society, observed: "A parade of human beings who have been saved from diseases by work done on dogs . . . would take a week ... to pass down Michigan Avenue." Dr. Moore was then beset by hecklers. Up spoke Dr. Italo Frederick Volini, professor of medicine at Loyola University Medical School: "If this is a question of suffering and needless pain, do ... the ladies who have come here with furs on their backs . . . consider the suffering of some little animal, caught between the steel teeth of a cruel trap and left to die?" Mrs. McLaughlin retorted that...
After brilliant records at Tulane, Loyola at New Orleans and Stanford (where in 1940 he won eight straight and the Rose Bowl championship), this season Shaughnessy is trying to rescue Pittsburgh from doldrums brought on by a violent attack of simon-pure amateurism. His Panthers have yet to make a touchdown, but he has found his dream team in football's record book, sets it out in his Football in War & Peace for fans to mull over...