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Ralph Marion Stuck of Denver, Colo, described a device which he has used for a year with success: He drills two holes in the skull just above the hairline, halfway through the bone. Then he fastens the sharp ends of a pair of surgical ice tongs into the holes...
With few notable exceptions (Senators Wagner in New York, Downey in California, Bone in Washington), arch-New Deal Democrats were defeated. Democrats such as Governor Lehman of New York and Senator Clark of Missouri, both of whom differed with the President on the Supreme Court, as well as those like Senator Tydings of Maryland whom the President tried to purge, were conspicuous among the survivors-a triumph for the old-fashioned politics of Postmaster Farley over the politics of the White House Janizariat...
...experiment did not prove that "laboratory babies" were possible. Its significance lay rather in the fact that certain pathological tumors (teratomas) which contain hair, bone and even gland cells, may have developed from egg cells which received mechanical stimulation, started to become embryos. Further experimentation may even shed light on the development of common ovarian cysts...
...forceful, vitriolic speaker when he is aroused, Homer Bone is as unrelenting as ever toward the men he calls the big-dough boys." Besides Franklin Roosevelt, his enthusiasms are his son "Home," 16, locomotives, and oysters, which he sometimes eats for breakfast...
Once Homer Bone brought a case of Alaskan salmon to the press gallery at the Capitol, invited the newsmen there to help themselves. They tried to, but could not remove the tightly bound wire around the case, whereupon Homer Bone made a sardonic and highly characteristic remark. Said he: "Do you mean that with all the knockers around here you fellows haven't got a hammer...