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Prizefighter Ernie Schaaf who died after his ring hammering from monstrous Primo Camera (TIME, Feb. 20) was buried at Wrentham, Mass, last week without his brain. His brain remained in Manhattan, scene of the fight, for medical legalists to determine just what caused the death. Primo Camera might have committed murder. Or Schaaf might merely have died during a crisis in his professional life. Jimmy Walker's brother Dr. William H. Walker, who was last week under charges of splitting fees on municipal medical work, had-as medical attache of the New York Boxing Commission-certified that Schaaf...
Between Schaaf's crumpling in the ring and his death three days later he lay in coma. Dr. Philip Goodhart, professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia, came in on the case as consultant. He found Schaaf's left side paralyzed. The condition of the fighter's eyes confirmed the diagnosis of a deep-seated lesion in the right side of the brain. To relieve pressure and explore the injury Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Columbia brain surgeon, cut a 3 1/2 in. disk from the right side of Schaaf's skull. Only a small hemorrhage was visible...
...ring telegram not only brought a sharp retort from the Swedish editor, but caused the first open squabble in the polyglot Fascist-Nationalist Cabinet. To Chancellor Hitler, Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath loudly insisted that Hermann Göring must be prevented from sticking his pugnacious nose into foreign affairs...
Proud of their catch, the Chilean police boasted that it would lead to extermination of Argentina's renowned white slave ring, Zwi Migdal. Argentines were skeptical. The whole thing, they observed, is a matter of profits so huge that Zwi Migdal can well afford to pay bribes big enough to keep the traffic going. Not long ago a Franchucha testified that during her first week 402 men were shown into her room, paid not quite $3 each-or nearly...
Phil Scott, whilom British heavyweight ring champion (Jack Sharkey defeated him in three rounds at Miami, 1930), proprietor of a beauty shop at Thornton Heath, was engaged as boxing instructor to Egypt's police...