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After he had made his cat comfortable on its back and insensitive to pain, he carefully slit open its torso to expose the viscera. Next he carefully cut practically every sympathetic nerve in the cat's body. Particularly, he cut the nerves running to the heart and every organ known to produce a hormone - the thyroids, parathyroids, thymus, duodenum, liver, pancreas, adrenals, pineal gland, pituitary body, chorioid plexus and sexual organs...
...Madison Square Garden, Jim Londos humped an enormous torso shaped like a single pile of white dough and topped with a tiny spike of head, wrapped his arms around Jim McMillen, U. S. wrestler who once played with Red Grange on Illinois' football team. For 56 minutes, 54 seconds they grunted, sweated, flopped with terrific thuds on the canvas. Once Londos threw McMillen out of the ring. Then McMillen slipped Londos through the ropes. Then both fell down into the press bench, were helped in again, resumed grappling. At last Londos picked up McMillen, slapped him down, rolled...
First prize of $500 went to one Peter P. Ott of Manhattan for his soap torso done in a Greek manner. That the contest had left the realm of advertising and ventured into the realm of pure art seemed indicated by the jury of award which listed among others Sculptors Gutzon Borglum, Lorado Taft, Artist Charles Dana Gibson, Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett. Many of the competing sculptors were obviously serious in their work. The work of some was creditable. To most, however (including Colyumist Robert Littell of the New York World who suggested that the advantage of soap statuary...
...last week arrived Nedo Nadi, the greatest fencer alive. Dressed in his fencing whites, his torso looking extraordinarily long because, in the traditional postures of correct fencing, his back was always stiff, his knees usually bent, he gave an exhibition at the New York Athletic Club. His opponents were Clovis Deladrier, onetime military champion of Belgium, now instructor at Annapolis, and George Santelli, onetime amateur champion of Hungary. As Nadi touched Deladrier's breast with the point of his foil or slashed at Santelli with his sabre, his own mastery seemed to excite him. He talked -rapidly in French...
...drags princess of whom he is heavily enamoured through the mountrains. This princess is a blonde new to pictures named Catherine Dale Owen, whose contribution is an unnecessarily sour look while being sung to. Best shot: Tibbett, after he is captured, bellowing a song while floggers flay his naked torso in the presence of the princess...