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Unabashed by the general solemnity of the occasion, the cat walked up to the altar, brushed against the leg of the Rector, the Reverend Endicott Peabody, and scampered back down the aisle...
...Franklin Roosevelt, homing from Hawaii, paused at Green Bay to pat his Wisconsin friends upon the back, he singled out two: Progressive Senator Bob La Follette, and Democratic Governor Albert G. Schmedeman. No help to the Governor's campaign was the accident which resulted in the amputation of his leg (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week he emerged from the hospital, reentered the campaign with hope: "After all a political race isn't one of those collegiate track events." Nor was it, for Franklin Roosevelt, showing little college spirit, cheered on Progressive Bob La Follette who dragged his brother Phil...
...fumbling in the cockpit during a rainstorm, accidentally knocked down the wing flaps. The plane whipped into a stall, spun down 8.000 ft. into the swirling blackness before he could bring it out. Unnerved but undiscouraged. the aviators swooped into Pearl Harbor to complete in 25 hours the second leg of the world's most hazardous over-water air course...
Seven weeks ago Wisconsin's Democratic Governor, 69-year-old Albert Schmedeman, troubled with varicose veins, put down his foot unsteadily while descending from a speakers' platform, slipped, injured his ankle. Infection set in and his leg was amputated above the knee (TIME. Oct. 15). Howard Greene, his Republican opponent, declared on the stump that it was cruel of the Democratic organization to force a crippled man to continue the campaign. Last week political quidnuncs estimated that, although Mr. Greene had not been as inept as Mr. Gay, he, too, had lost votes by his remark...
...myxedema. In pernicious anemia the stomach fails to secrete a certain substance which as yet has not been isolated. Ordinarily that stomach secretion mixes with food, especially meats, and produces a second, unidentified substance in the intestines. There the second unknown is absorbed and gets to the arm and leg bones where it stimulates the production of red blood cells...