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Pete Herman, former bantanweight champion, who went totally blind as a result of a blow received in an exhibition bout for charity, has regained the sight of one eye. Herman had been under treatment for a year and in bed for three months with his eyes bandaged. Said he, when the gauze rolls were removed: "Thank God, I can see! I will never fight again, but I'll be a manager...
...gong, under which there are a certain number of human bones and skulls. When the hands point to one o'clock some of the bones unite to form a skeleton which?actuated by hidden mechanism?springs to its feet, seizes a wooden mallet and strikes the gong a single blow. The skeleton than collapses into pieces...
...After a wait of a few weeks he was called upon to take part in a duel. It is an inviolable rule that the opponents may cut, parry and lunge,, they may also move in any direction, but they cannot under any circumstance duck, their heads to avoid a blow-scars on the head being a mark of the highest honor. The young American in the heat of the duel forgot this rule and when his opponent made a lunge at him-he ducked and was ignominiously expelled from the club...
RAIN?The winds of religion blow over the mountains of psychoanalysis, while Jeanne Eagels, as an engaging harlot, battles with a rabid missionary. Rain, rain, South Sea RAIN beats down...
...attacked not only the specific suggestions put forward by Professor William Z. Ripley of Harvard for the Commission, but the general idea which it embodied. He characterized the proposal as " threatening and strange," " amounting to duress," " violently disturbing," impairing to " public welfare," " a pure abstraction of mathematics," " an insidious blow at the railway industry." As for combining strong and weak roads, he declared: " A mixture of good eggs and bad eggs always produces a bad omelette...