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...stand correctly, to breathe so that the diaphragm region under the lower unfixed ribs expands while the first lumbar vertebra protrudes, to cultivate an open throat-unless a pupil has learned these fundamentals at least, no capable, conscientious vocal teacher will turn him loose on the musical market. A singer should make sure that his palate is arched, his tongue slightly grooved, the back wall of his throat visible, his upper lip free...
...more injuries suffered by athletes waiting for the games to start at Los Angeles last week, most disastrous was the one which befell Col. Giuseppe Pirzio-Biroli, 52, captain of the Italian rifle team. He fell into a target pit while supervising practice, fractured a vertebra, had to be taken to the California hospital where physicians said he must remain, in a plaster cast, for three months...
Among the first retorts to Editor Harris had been that of Columbia's Head Coach Lou Little, who, having lately broken a vertebra, watches his team from a swivel chair: "If most student affairs were run as cleanly as football, there'd be little to worry about. I've been through college myself, and I know the graft connected with college publications, for instance, is on such a scale that it would put Tammany Hall to shame...
...year ago a carpenter at work on the Pittsburgher Hotel, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother Richard Beatty Mellon, dropped a hammer. It fell through a large plate-glass window in the Frick Building next door. Flying glass cut a 23-inch gash, severed a vertebra, in the back of Mary Hahn, 23, cigar vendor. Last week, after the Mellon lawyers had admitted liability, an Allegheny county jury awarded Miss Hahn $102,427 in damages. The Mellons, through counsel, protested the verdict was excessive, appealed for a new trial...
...Nazim Pasha's executioner, a man of skill, drew the noose tight under one ear. Ensued "a perfect hanging." The head, jerked to one side by the knot, snapped the neck vertebra, bringing instant death. Less fortunate was Deputy Hilmi Bey. His hangman, a clumsy lout, was forced to hang him twice...