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Died. Sir Edgar Theophilus Britten, 62, Commodore of the Cunard White Star fleet, captain of the Queen Mary; of apoplexy; stricken aboard ship in Southampton, England. Once locked in the Arctic ice for five months, once rammed by a Portuguese man-o'-war during an eleven-month voyage around the Horn, he never lost a life; was made George V's Naval Aide at his knighting...
...shanties they have made of sewer pipes. A one-time prosperous publicity agent, a ruined broker, a "wobbly," a Texas farmer pool their potential resources and, after a meeting, get enough supplies on credit to start work. A one time Socialist and Alaska miner named Sig Soren persuades old Theophilus Fleming, utilities tycoon, that the movement holds no threat to business. The co-operatives grow, getting recruits from a sharecrop per's family, a girl who escapes from white slavers, an anti-Fascist Italian barber, religious fanatics, diet faddists, a young doctor, disruptive Communists, well-to-do radicals...
...themselves in the fruit fly's germ cells are no larger than .00015 inch long, minute dots and streaks under the best microscopes. The chromosomes in the fly's salivary glands, however, are 70 times bigger than those in the germ-plasm, and two years ago Dr. Theophilus Shickel Painter of University of Texas took pioneer photographs of these tiny giants showing cross-bands. Then Dr. Bridges made such good photomicrographs of the salivary chromosomes that the crossbands marking gene locality came even more clearly to view, and the bands themselves were seen to be dotted or segmented...
Benedictine Father Celestine Kapsner translated from German the pamphlet Begone Satan! which described Father Theophilus Riesinger's exorcism of demons...
...surplice and violet stole, Father Theophilus repeated the prayers of the Church and loosed all the forces of the Lord at the devils day after day for 23 days. Finally, the Iowa woman smiled and for the first time in twelve years said: "My Jesus, mercy! Praised be Jesus Christ...