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Several years later the child surfers a psychological disturbance, vague and terrifying, traceable to the misguided influence of the lady's husband (Harvey Stephens), who has always imagined himself to be the father. She then recalls her savant-lover, now more eminent than ever, who is able to dispel the child's psychosis. The problem arises as to whether the lovers shall enlighten the cuckold and depart with their son. But much is manifestly owing to this man, who worships the child as his own. Therefore the doctor departs again on his lonely, scientific wanderings...
Hottest news in sizzling Genoa last week was the final report of that thoroughgoing savant. Dr. Jean Charcot of L'Institut de France, upon Christopher Columbus, famed No. 1 Genoese...
Although it is rumored on the campus that Miss True's salary is one that many a savant would be glad to have, she lives most simply, and is most human and unassuming. Her work is a triumph for womankind...
...Dewey is a bridgebuilder. Seeing the gulf between savant and citizen, he works to span it, building out on one side by educating the plain man, on the other by rousing the pedant to action...
...Pressburg, last week, judges sat in solemn conclave over nervous ascetic Professor Bela Tuka, famed savant, charged with high treason. Specific treason: attempting to carve Slovakia out of Czechoslovakia. Despite the fact that an alleged Hungarian spy, Anton Mras, swore loudly that his original testimony against Professor Tuka was false, Bela Tuka was sentenced to 15 years in penal servitude...