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...from the ordeal of a strenuous autopsy to which they were subjected recently by Dr. G. E. Wilson, histology instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Rather, six of the bodies has their privacy imposed upon, results of which permit an expose of the private life of Arizona's Basket Maker Indians...
...remains were generally in such a good state of preservation that sand could be found in the lungs of petrified Indians. Lung disease was disclosed similar to that disease so common among the inhabitants of dusty cities. Tuberculosis germs were furthermore detected and it is supposed that the Basket Maker tribe fought against a high death rate...
...years ago Max Phillips, money maker in collars, was annoyed. He believed himself threatened with arrest for violation of the Mann Act. He sued his nephew by marriage Bernard K. Marcus, president of the Bank of United States. He believed an arrest had been "framed" to ruin him. He sued to examine the books of the Bank, in which he held stock, charging mismanagement of funds. How much of this tangle was truth and how much bad temper the world will never know. Last week the million dollar suits were discontinued with a hand shake. Poor people looked wistfully over...
...Coolidge received so many jack-knives from other people that he had to begin giving them away. All were a propos the President's remark that when his term ends he is going to whittle a while (TIME, Nov. 21). That remark having been meant figuratively, even humorously, its maker felt he was receiving jack-knives under false pretenses and so stated. The knives soon ceased to arrive. Their place in the Executive mailbag was taken by letters from small boys who could easily use any extra jack-knives any one had lying around...
Eight years ago motor-maker Henry Ford bought a magazine. Mr. Ford, like many another national figure, wanted an organ which would distribute his own distillate of the world-wide torrent of printed talk about him. The sheet was called The Dearborn Independent. It contained articles of opinion, ethical, political, factual: also Mr. Ford's page. These bits of philosophy (collected in a volume called Ford Ideals) were reported as prompted, if not actually penned, by Mr. Ford. Latterly The Dearborn Independent suggested one idea to many a U. S. mind-anti-Semitism. Its columns carried Jewish articles which...