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Part of most tourists' fun in quaint old Nuremberg is shuddering at the medieval torture instruments in its thick-walled Burg (citadel). Last week Nuremberg Storm Troopers revived a medieval custom. They seized a woman convicted of mistreating her stepchild, drove her through the streets with a placard around her neck reading, "I am a liar and an unnatural mother!" Nurembergers guffawed. Two pictures of the driven woman were printed with approving comments by the local Nazi newsorgan Fränkische Zeitung. The Storm Troopers looked around for another woman to drive in medieval fashion through the streets. They...
...second. Dr. Palmer Findley, 65, is professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Nebraska's College of Medicine, councilor of the American College of Surgeons, onetime president of the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists and Abdominal Surgeons. He weights his book with many a quaint or appalling notion once held about childbirth, admits that posterity may find present-day ideas equally ridiculous. For laywomen & men who want to round out and freshen up their knowledge now, he offers a sound, thoroughgoing outline of modern facts and opinions about birth. Some of them...
From England, where antiquarians ponder over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, Heart Burial* a new tome, reached the U. S. last week. The author, Charles Angell Bradford, concerns himself primarily with hearts given special burial in the London district. Besides that, he tries anthropologically to link the faded fad with the canopic burials of viscera in ancient Egypt...
...trip Saturday, July 29. At 8.30 o'clock special busses will take the party from Sever Hall to Salem where the Ropes Memorial, the House of Seven Gables, the Piencer Village, and the Peabody Museum will be visited. At noon the party will go to Marblehead where the quaint streets, the old buildings, and the harbor are the principal attractions. Tickets which include all expenses except lunch can be purchased at the Summer School Office, Sever 3, on Thursday and Friday, from 8.30 to 4 o'clock...
...chance for gross emotionalism. Such a background, of course, forms a perfect foil behind any genuine female charm, and Miss Helen Hayes takes full advantage of her chance. She is an unconvincing Chinese, but a superb mistress of the situation. Lien Wah's delicately expressive hands, and quaint self obliteration weave an incapable feminine charm through all the mess of uninteresting Oriental gore...