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...London daily headlined the story: GHOST HUNTER SOUGHT. This was the newspaper's way of saying that Cambridge University's oddest fellowship was looking for a candidate again. Cambridge was willing to grant ?300 a year (for a maximum of two years) to a qualified and acceptable student who would investigate "some problem in psychical research...
...enough to baffle an electrocardiograph; a strange outbreak of heart and circulatory diseases seemed to be sweeping through the oddest levels of the St. Louis social structure. Police Commissioner John T. English, of East St. Louis, just across the Mississippi in Illinois, announced that he had a heart condition. Leo Dougherty, the Democratic boss of East St. Louis, checked into a Chicago hospital with "a coronary." Then Charles J. ("Kewpie") Rich, a big bookie, discovered that his ticker was acting...
...sailor in Malta asked for the roar of the crowd when his soccer team (Tottenham Hotspurs) scored a goal; another wanted to hear his favorite pub owner calling the traditional closing-time chant: "Time, gentlemen, please!"; an airman asked for a "cockney barrow boy selling his wares." Oddest request came from a lonesome telegrapher in South Africa: he wanted to hear again the thunder of airplanes roaring low over his home just before they landed at London Airport...
...oddest pets in pet-loving Britain are two electric turtles named Elmer and Elsie. They play around the home of Dr. W. Grey Walter, head of the physiological department of the Burden Neurological Institute at Bristol. Elmer and Elsie are not exactly alive. Under their shiny steel shells are no flesh & blood, but only mechanical organs. They take no interest in each other, and could not, in any case, reproduce. But wandering around Dr. Walter's house, they act much like real live animals...
Artist Salvador Dali, 45, showed up in Manhattan with one of bis newest and oddest creations: a larger-than-life-sized, jewel-studded eye, with one ruby teardrop forming in the corner. The proper place for a lady to wear this surrealist bauble, he explained, was smack on her forehead, just above and between her real eyes...