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...denounced. When lightning struck a house next to his summer cottage on Sullivan's Island beach, its owner nailed up a neatly lettered sign: "Dear God, He Lives Next Door." Every man entered in South Carolina's senatorial race vilified him during the campaign. Congressman L. Mendel Rivers sought to institute impeachment proceedings against him, cried: "Unless he is removed . . . there will be bloodshed. He is now in the process of extracting a pound of flesh from the white people of South Carolina because, through his own actions, he has been ostracized from their society...
Congressmen from the big cities had fought the tax without success. But they got potent allies when oleo manufacturers began making their product from the oils of cottonseed and soybeans-raised in the southern and midwestern states. By the time South Carolina's Congressman L. Mendel Rivers introduced his bill for tax repeal, margarine had become as politically explosive as plutonium...
Final problem: Was this gene a "dominant" or a "recessive?" To find out, Dr. Hall mated brown mice with black mice. When their hybrid offspring were tried in the tub, nearly all died in convulsions at the sound of the fatal bell. This proved (according to Mendel's law of heredity) that the jittery gene was dominant. A recessive gene would not have expressed itself until the next generation...
...High-jump R. Haydock, Jr., '39, May 15, 1937. Height--6 ft., 3 1/4 in. Javelin--R. C. Johnson '36, May 25, 1935. Distance--208 ft., 6 in. Discuss--J. H. Dean '34, May 19, 1934. Distance--157 ft., 7 3/4 in. Shot-put (16 lbs.)--H. P. Mendel '40, June 1, 1940. Distance--50 ft., 6 3/4 in. Hammer-throw (16 lbs.)--W. J. Shallow '40, May 20, 1939. Distance...
...Bill Jackson may hit 50 feet this spring. Garland, who looks like somebody from Greek mythology and throws the shot put a lot farther, tossed 49 feet 6 inches in the 1942 Freshman Yale meet. The college record is 50 feet 6 3/4 inches, held by H. P. Mendel '40. Felton Garland and Jackson will all double in the discus. Elsewhere in the field events, more holdovers from the indoor season will spearhead the Crimson scoring thrust. Pete Harwood, Bill Lawrence, Owen Torrey and Tom Johnson have all proved their qualifications for the pole-vault, with Harwood up around...