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Eyes, Ears & Nose. All victims of mongolism have three things in common: 1) mental deficiency, 2) short heads, 3) faces which seem to have been flattened (actually, growth is arrested). Besides these constants, other defects are found so often in mongolism that Dr. Ingalls got a vital clue from analyzing them: the ears are usually malformed, there may be opacities in the eye lens, one of the nasal bones is usually absent, and the middle phalanx of the fifth finger is generally stunted. The clue: all these signs affect tissues which develop at about the eighth week of fetal life...
...vote came, many of them dutifully lined up with management and other stockholders to approve a plan to set aside 3,000,000 more shares of A.T. & T. stock for employees to buy at $20 under the market price (latest quotation: $150). They also approved an increase of common shares from 35 million to 45 million, and the raising of $435 million in new financing (TIME, Oct. 2). Such felicity proved catching. This week Western Electric granted wage boosts averaging more than 10? an hour, and the strikers went back to work...
...Wooster street taproom of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moriarty was dependent upon the same source for its income, but shone out above all other New Haven alehouses in disdaining the common American saloon trapping in favor of a quiet European charm and hospitality. A Yaleman of this era wrote, "Frank's offered a hospitality and possessed a dignity never acquired by any one of the various saloons in the district...
...meanwhile the University can do at least three things. First, use some common sense in anticipating crowds, so that at least the maximum number of seats will be available, even if that maximum is not enough. Second, insure that it is the students who get the seats (not just generally curious non-university people), or at least that students get priority, by issuing ickets to faculty and students, or merely by checking bursar's cards. Third, determine a policy on the saving of seats for friends (and, if it is to be permitted, then some system for informing the policeman...
Another was less placid. There would be a television set in his common room only over his dead body, he warned...