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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...
...think the item should have been included in TIME that the boy who as a small child inspired the writing of "Mighty Lak a Rose," now a man of 38. was killed Sunday, Jan. 17 in an automobile crash near Macon...
...Macon 31.6 Kansas City...
...echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government. But like her Russian counterpart, Krupskaya, widow of the great Lenin, Mme Sun Yat-sen lives in retirement, generally plays no part in politics...
...Macon, Ga., James Henry Watts laughed, dislocated his jaw. He went to a hospital, had the jaw set, departed, laughed again, returned, had the jaw set again, departed, laughed a third time, went back and had his jaw taped up so he could not laugh. James Henry Watts now titters through his teeth...