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...distended shape. In 1812, when Elbridge Gerry was governor of Massachusetts, his legislature carved up the state's districts to keep the Republicans of that day in power and the Federalists out. When they got through, the Essex South District came out lizard-shaped. Federalist Editor Benjamin Russell had a map of the new district in his office, and on it Artist Gilbert Stuart one day added head, claws and wings and remarked: "That will do for a salamander." Replied Editor Russell: "Better say a Gerrymander!" and a useful word was born...
When a Christian does battle with Freud, it is no news. But a foray against Freud just published in the U.S. by British Clergyman Benjamin Gilbert Sanders, Christianity After Freud (Macmillan; $1.75), may raise some startled eyebrows among both psychoanalysts and Christians. For Author Sanders picks Freud's own weapons to defend Christianity...
Appropriately, the first witness was U.S. Steel Corp.'s beet-faced President Benjamin F. Fairless, who had been the first to raise his prices. Adjusting his brown bow tie and his horn-rimmed spectacles, Fairless summed up his story at the start. "There is no mystery about our price increases," he said. "They were made necessary by heavy increases in our costs...
Fantastic Error. In his house on Walnut Street, Dr. Benjamin Rush plowed prayerfully through his medical library hoping to find a way to beat the yellow fever. He was a good and pious, if somewhat crotchety and hypersensitive man, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and generally considered the most eminent physician in the U.S. The "cure" he hit upon came from a clue in a manuscript on yellow fever written half a century before by a part-time physician and mapmaker. Rush's cure consisted simply of massive mercury (i.e., calomel) and jalap purges and copious bloodletting...
...Benjamin F. Wright, President of Smith, is speaker...