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Back during the dusty, tire-patching era of the Pope-Hartford and the Apperson Jackrabbit, the average U.S. citizen seldom got behind an automobile wheel without secretly feeling a little like a man climbing aboard a racing camel or a Mallet locomotive. In the years since, he has gone right on believing that only his innate coolness, intelligence and mechanical aptitude have enabled him to remain the master of the gas buggy. But last week Northwestern University's Traffic Institute had news...
...prove descent through the male line from the Saxons who invaded Britain in the 5th Century. These are the Ardens (one was Shakespeare's mother), the Berkeleys and the Swintons. And only three can prove male descent from the Companions of William the Conqueror in 1066: Malet (or Mallet or Mellat), Giffard, and De Marris. Even King George VI's Saxon descent is through the female line; about 100,000 living Britons can claim legitimate descent from such royal ancestry. Pine calls Edward III (1312-77) the crossroads of British genealogy. Says he: "If you have some family...
Grey Matter Psychosurgery is older than the pyramids, though ancient man didn't call it psychosurgery. When he picked up flint and mallet and cut a hole in his brother's skull, he was often just looking for a way to let the evil spirits out. Modern medical science not only has better tools and a sounder vocabulary, but believes it knows where to look for the trouble, i.e., in the front part of the brain...
...happy match, and after 17 years and three children they separated. Meanwhile, Bierce went on writing grotesque and macabre tales. In one, a father is decapitated by a mowing machine, in another a man bashes in his wife's head with a mallet, in a third a dog gnaws on the bones of a child. His general nausea for mankind erupted into the epigrams of The Devil's Dictionary. Samples...
...last speaker for the opposition in the morning was George R. Farnum, president of the Massachusetts Anti-Vivisection League, who promised to be brief. He wasn't. He described an experiment where a dog was beaten on the leg from 700 to 1,000 times with a rawhide mallet to induce shock. He also described other experiments. The crowd gasped in horror. The woman behind me muttered "Butcher, butcher." "Open the animal pounds," Farnum went on, "and who will say that their next demand will not be for access to . . . insane asylums...