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Fighting Fox, a temperamental four-year-old, who breaks a record one day and runs like a plug the next, has earned almost $75,000 of the stable's 1939 winnings. But three-year-old Johnstown, Kentucky Derby winner, has been the sensation of the 1939 racing season. Toasted as another Man o' War when he made all his contemporaries look like hobby horses early in the season, Big John, a homely colt with lop ears, upset the dopesters when he was beaten by William L. Brann's Challedon in the Preakness...
...Alice was to destroy the choroid plexus in her first two ventricles, thus diminishing the water supply to her brain. (The third and fourth ventricles are smaller, produce minute quantities of water.) First he made a one-inch slit on the top of her scalp, cut out a small plug of bone. Into the tiny hole he inserted his ventriculoscope...
...about two inches of choroid plexus. Turning on the electricity, he seared off all the feathery tissue he could reach with his hot wire. Within a half hour he had cauterized the choroid plexus in both ventricles. After the operation, he gently withdrew the tube, inserted the plug of bone, neatly stitched up the baby's scalp...
...industry's best sales plug in recent years has been the claim that pickles contain vitamins, particularly Vitamin C (which prevents scurvy), fill a dietary need for people who do not eat enough fresh vegetables and fruit...
From Tarzana, Calif, (named after his tree-swinging nature-man) Author Edgar Rice Burroughs issued an ultimatum to all wrestlers, boxers, strongmen, footballers calling themselves Tarzan: " 'Tarzan' is a copyrighted trademark and if these plug-uglies insist upon using it, I'm going to insist on the right to license them and stencil the copyright number on their chests...