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...Philadelphia, Mr. Pennell addressed an eminent group at the Print Club. Said he: "You couldn't build anything worse than your City Hall, but you won't build anything better. It's the worst possible stone pile in any city in the world...
Varying degrees of humor were shown in the fictitious names chosen by the individuals and groups applying. "Aces; All Aces" lay at the top of the pile, closely followed by "Faith, Hope, and Charity" which brilliant idea occurred to three groups. The "Blue Shux Clan" put in its bid for notoriety as did also "What Girls...
...Gettum Cummin and Cohen" rivaled by "Jurgen" and "Flaming Youth" were next in the pile, playing for the affections of "Sally, Polly, and Gladys...
Another brick in the pile of evidence that is gradually being built up by Kammerer, Guyer and others in favor of the theory of " inheritance of acquired characteristics" (TIME, May 12) has been laid by Professor Ivan P. Pavloff, great Russian physiologist, who visited America last Summer (TIME, July 23). In an address given at the Battle Creek Sanitarium and published in Science last week, he described his latest researches on "conditioned reflexes " in animals...
...well known that William R. Hearst bitterly opposed me in the recent municipal election in New York City. Last week, at French Lick Springs, Ind., the New York City morning newspapers were brought to my room by a bellboy. The New York American was on top of the pile. When I saw that publication my face became so grim that the bellboy was frightened. ' Any missing ? ' he asked, apologetically. ' No,' said I. ' There is one too many.' With that I handed the American to the astonished boy. ' Take that away,' I directed...