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Even more impressive was Cincinnati's human skeleton, 6 ft.-5 in. Ewell Blackwell. He looked remarkably like the National League's best pitcher, putting the mighty St. Louis Cardinals to bed with only three hits. In the American League, Detroit's curly-haired pride & joy, Lefty Hal Newhouser, began earning his $60,000-a-year salary first 'time out, letting the Browns down with just four hits and no sign...
Highly regarded as a good field of concentration for pre-medical students, especially course 2a, a study of the skeleton, Anthropology, however, graduates chiefly men who continue their studies either by joining field expeditions or by taking graduate work in the subject...
...arrive at the lecture hall two hours before the professor in order to find a place. Students sit on the floor, on window sills, and stand out in the hall during every class. One day it was so crowded that the lecturer was not able to carry the demonstration skeleton to the platform...
...walkout only a few hours away, Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell conferred with both sides in Ottawa. More Government assistance, said he, was out. If the Carroll compromise were accepted, the 40? would have to come out of a higher coal price. But the operators found that unacceptable. Only skeleton maintenance crews were left underground. Industries and cities dug into the coal which they have been stockpiling. Most coal users had enough on hand for a few weeks. But Nova Scotia cities were already talking about dimouts and other conservation measures...
This is no more than the bare skeleton of Under the Volcano. Its flesh & blood is Author Lowry's attempt to set down the detailed workings of the two brothers' minds-the one strangled by disillusion and alcohol, the other frustrated and disgusted by the shallow halfheartedness of dubious humanitarianism. Interjecting themselves among these struggles are the brothers' tangled feelings for Yvonne, in which love, brotherly loyalty, hope crushed by fatal exhaustion and pessimism add to their already tortured consciences...