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...next 14, and finally a little girl - was trotted for eight minutes, walked for four and rubbed down every ten miles at the request of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The doctor, who fasted for eight days prior to the race to "get the poison out of his system," had no S. P. C. A. to protect him. He just loped along, stopping now & then for orange juice or an oily rubdown...
...even more sinister, a utilities executive; that he had been a registered Democrat and had voted for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932; that his office was only a block from Wall Street; that he was unknown to most U. S. voters; that his stand against isolation had made him political poison in the Middle West and his support of the reciprocal trade treaties had ruined him forever in the Western States. In addition to alL these obstacles (beside the rumor that he had been a socialist in college) there were other arguments against the whole idea: it was too late...
...Poison gas in some sectors...
...Adventures of a Biologist. Famed problem child of British scientists, prolific science writer, expert on poison gas, big, bristly-tempered, 47-year-old Biologist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane believes that life without adventure is "like beef without mustard." But his idea of adventure is not safaris; it is exploring the ultramicroscopic world, the stratosphere, the nature rather than the surface of the earth. Besides essays on the biologist in relation to everything from town-planning to death, Biologist Haldane speculates on the effect of weather on history, on the possibility of a new ice age, on the chances...
...were vexed when Kentucky's Legislature recently passed a law imposing a $50-$100 fine on those who (after June 12) "display, handle or use a snake or reptile in a religious service." Pastor George Washington Hensley last week told how his church, by testing faith by poison, had already got around the Legislature: "Brother Bradley Shell took a large dose of strychnine powders about 6 o'clock. We stayed with him until 11:30 and there was no bad effect on him because of his faith...