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Half a century later Phi Beta Kappa gave up its secrets to become a national honorary scholastic society. Only the first part of the salute, a handshake with the ring and little fingers folded back in the palm of the hand, remained as an induction ceremony. Soon there was no living person who knew what followed the handshake in the original salute...
...Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such things as Evangeline, Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (32 pictures in this set), Othello, The Wreck of the Hesperus. One of his favorites was Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight! Long before Minnie Maddern Fiske transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell, Joseph Boggs Beale had produced a lively drawing of Bessie in the belfry, her wild hair...
...prizefight business has been whether or not Joe Louis (pronounced Lewis) can take a punch as well as give one. The difficulty has been caused by the fact that none of Louis' adversaries, since he turned professional a year ago, has proved capable of staying in the ring with him long or actively enough to answer it. Louis' bout with Chicago's clownish Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky") last week was originally scheduled mainly as a build-up for his next really important fight in September but as the date approached, sports writers courteously began to reflect that...
...excitement lasted precisely 141 seconds. Levinsky rose from his stool in the corner, walked across the ring. The Negro knocked him down, first with a solid left hook to the chin for a referee's count of two, then, when Levinsky got up, three times more, for counts of five, five and four. After the fourth knockdown, instead of falling on the floor, Levinsky collapsed on the ropes in the corner of the ring. Dazed and beaten, he muttered something which the referee mercifully took for a superfluous confession that the fight was over...
...streamed into Leningrad's glass-roofed Uritsky Palace last week to constitute the 18th International Physiological Congress. The showpiece of Russian science, 85-year-old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, mounted the Uritsky rostrum, rang a bell. Long ago Dr. Pavlov conducted an experiment wherein he would ring a bell just before feeding his dogs. Soon the dogs, expecting a meal, would start to water at the mouth at sound of the bell. Dr. Pavlov called this drooling a conditioned reflex. It proved that imagination has power over body, directs the basic cravings of living creatures. That proof earned...