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...arts exhibit features "the only representative collection of Scottish Old Masters ever assembled under one roof." When a Scot commissioned such painters as Sir John Lavery, Sir David Cameron, Allan Ramsay or Alexander Eraser to do his portrait or a bit of native scenery, his heirs somehow managed to keep the picture in the family and few have had to be sold to buyers like Sir Joseph Duveen or Sotheby's of London. The canny private owners were induced to loosen up and loan their paintings for this year's display...
...classmates were spoiled a bit for a tough world...
...Pontine Marshes by Italian ex-soldiers for themselves and their families. One morning last week, before the Germans should arrive in their pomp (see p. 16), Il Duce slipped behind the wheel of his little sports car, whizzed out of Rome to do at Pomezia (see map) a bit of informal work as a stonemason- which used to be his trade...
Many a tearful child has been told of the Spartan boy who hid a fox under his shirt, never even winced when the fox bit him and kept on biting him, finally fell dead, still with a dead pan. Last week readers of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin wondered whether that Spartan boy was just a freak, after all-a child who could not feel pain. For the Bulletin told of two little Baltimore boys and a girl who were like the Spartan. Johns Hopkins' Drs. Frank Rodolph Ford & Lawson Wilkins discovered them, found that they stubbed toes, barked...
This indifference may account, say they for the vaudeville entertainer who let spikes be driven through his hand, for the "eminent jurist" who bit off the tip of his crushed finger, for the woman who squeezed herself headfirst into a blazing furnace. What is the explanation for such indifference to pain, Drs. Ford & Wilkins could not say, decided that it may be akin to such mysteries as congenital color blindness, word deafness and word blindness...