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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol's Statuary Hall, one of Florida's two immortal sons is Dr. John Gorrie . . ." [TIME, Dec. 3]?wrong again. He is her only son there. Surprised recently at the sight of a gentleman roped to a plank being dragged head first down the Capitol steps, I found him to be the bronze edition of Florida's other son, General E. Kirby Smith, C. S. A., who now stands with several other sons in the Hall of Columns one floor below. Under a Congressional resolution, mainly because the great weight of almost 100 statues was considered unsafe, the Hall...
Harvard Square will be treated to a delightfully archaic sight this afternoon, when at two o'clock precisely, especially privileged members of the Harvard Dramatic Club will climb aboard a chariot lent them by the Classical Club, and gallop off for the Repertory Theatre...
...cinema director might have applauded so accomplished a representation of suave villainy. But New York's Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine is no cinema director and the sight of Harry Strauss at the police line-up filled him with honest fury. The 25-year-old Brooklynite was there on a charge of beating to death a Negro gasoline station attendant for keeping him waiting overlong. Seventeen times before Harry Strauss had been arrested on such charges as homicide, carrying a revolver, larceny, assault, possessing narcotics and seventeen times before the New York police had been unable to tag him with...
...reality, he concluded that the medium's ability was by no means extraordinary. Her best scores in telepathy were high, but had been surpassed by one of Dr. Rhine's own students, a young man with no pretensions to special psychic equipment. Strengthened was Dr. Rhine's conviction that sight without seeing is a natural and commonplace faculty, exercised by "the reception of an unknown form of energy in an unknown manner" but nevertheless "an integral part of mental life" and entirely within the orderly processes of Nature...
During this season he was forced to take over the heavy part of the job of booting 'em back out of danger. For with the graduation of Johnny Dean this end of the aerial service was left vacant and Haley was the only man in sight, at the beginning of the year, when the gifted Freddy Moseley was off the field...