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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...
There was no simple touchstone, no all-embracing word to sum up the world organization that emerged this week from San Francisco. Augustus had sought the security of his world through Roman "justice"; Gregory through Christian "brotherhood"; Napoleon through "law" and the Grand Army; Metternich through "legitimacy"; Wilson through "democracy." The San Francisco conference had no comparable key; it just said "security." By stressing the goal rather than the path, it opened the door to all opportunities-and to all contradictions...
Clearly enough, the future has its bright aspects. Besides question-mark Voiselle, there are two top sophomores on the present club: Third Baseman Napoleon Reyes (25), and Shortstop Johnny Kerr (22). Cuban-born Reyes is a flashy, high-stepping crowd-pleaser. Lanky Johnny Kerr is a speedster, and already one of the top short fielders in the game...
...after the German entry into Paris, General Ike received the Cross of Liberation from General Charles de Gaulle. Then, saluting from an open car, he was driven between roaring thousands down the Champs-Elysees. To his collection of precious souvenirs, France added a gold-hiked sword which Napoleon had worn as First Consul, a gold cigaret case encrusted with five sapphire stars...
G.S.C.'s spiritual father was Frederick the Great, who began its tradition of endurance in adversity and gave the Corps its Prussian base. Napoleon and his defeat of the Prussians at Jena gave the G.S.C. its first great strategic concepts-the wielding of massive armies and the conscription needed to provide the uniformed mass. Two non-Prussians, calm, scholarly General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, a Hanoverian, and impetuous, dashing August Wilhelm Anton von Gneisenau, coalesced these concepts. Scharnhorst founded the War Academy, from which Staff officers were chosen, and Gneisenau, as chief of staff of the Prussian army...