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...Menard, Tex., where he worked occasionally at bricklaying, Ernest Elmer Baker made up for his lapse by the zeal with which he took up Pentecostalism in 1933. Pentecostalists roll on the floor and believe that prayer will cure anything, even a sliced artery (TIME, July 23) or a rattlesnake bite (TIME, Aug. 20). Last year Ernest Elmer Baker, 38, got the idea that it would cure Russian Godlessness. The Pentecostal saints, he told his friends, had called him to carry the gospel. In February 1934, Ernest Elmer Baker's father gave him $1.40 and he set out for Russia...
...There should be a chapter on Anger. Repressed rage is one of man's grandest endowments, and I wouldn't give a straw for a man who couldn't on occasion bite a crowbar in two in pure dancing fury. But-don't do it; you simply spoil the crowbar or break a tooth...
When a Sicilian wants to duel, he neither presents his card nor flips his glove in his enemy's face. Instead, he bites his opponent's ear. Enacting the role of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana at Manhattan's Hippodrome last week, Tenor Sidney Raynor's bite went wild. He missed Baritone Rocco Pandiscio's ear, took a painful nip out of the Pandiscio cheek. Peace was made over the bandaging backstage. Later in the evening Baritone Pandiscio went onstage with his round jowl swathed. He played his next role heartily, the doleful clown in Pagliacci...
Near Brownstown, Ind. last fortnight Harold Jankowitz, 20, CCC worker, chewed the head off a blacksnake for $1. Said he: "I didn't really bite its head off. I mostly pulled it off. The snake was too tough." Worker Jankowitz added the $1 to a fund with which he hopes to pay for an eye operation so he may take a West Point entrance examination...
...mariphasa flowers tries to steal Dr. Glendon's last blossom. The result is a fight between the two and the liveliest sequence in the picture when Dr. Glendon is shot by a pistol bullet while chasing his wife about their house in an effort to bite her to death with teeth two inches long...