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...loaves of bread, kegs of wine and water, cages of doves, pigeons, nightingales and other birds. The Holy Father, 76, appeared pale towards the end, but not otherwise affected by muggy heat and four and one-half hours of ceremonial during which many people fainted. At one point a madman jumped on a chair, began haranguing the crowd in a loud voice, was removed by the police...
Author Pirandello's thesis, ingeniously stated and restated through 268 pages, is that everyone has a multiple personality; that if anyone tries to examine deeply his own multiplicity, nonentity, possible unity, he will quickly be called a madman. "Julius Caesar, the individual, did not exist. There existed, it is true, a Julius Caesar that we know from so large a part of his life, and this one undoubtedly possesses a value incomparably greater than the others; not, however, so far as reality is concerned, please believe me when I tell you that...
...People ran screaming in all directions. When Officer Gordon Jensen, returning from a football game, saw him, Julian Marcelino was busy on a Japanese. By this time reserves had been rushed to the scene from all over Seattle. Officer Jensen and two colleagues finally overcame the little madman. Summoned from every hospital in the city, ambulances clanged up to the carnage. Julian Marcelino's incredible record for the afternoon: six killed, 15 seriously wounded...
Nearly all France believed Assassin Gorgulov to be mad. There was comment and there were shrugs because the Widow Doumer did not ask clemency. But there was no criticism. If the late President's widow had set her heart against a madman surely it was her right to do so. As his death day dawned Dr. Gorgulov kissed the Orthodox priest who administered last rites and said with a wry smile, "I am not afraid. I am neither Royalist nor Communist. I hope that my son, who is yet unborn, will not become a Communist. Tell my wife...
Smith Ely Jelliffe, Manhattan neurologist, in 1907 proved Harry Kendall Thaw mentally deranged, kept the Pittsburgh socialite from electrocution for the shooting of Architect Stanford White. Madman Thaw declared himself bankrupt, but said to Dr. Jelliffe, "Stick along, I'll pay you when I'm released" (from the Matteawan State Hospital at Beacon, N. Y.). Last week Dr. Jelliffe, 66, sued free & sane Mr. Thaw, 61, for $10,000 back fees. Said U. S. District Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe: "Doctor, you are in a tough spot. I would like to see you get your money. But the cause...