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Last week, having shamed several mediums who nibbled at his bets, Conjurer Dunninger performed his stunts for benefit of press. Trussed up in a leather harness, his hands encased in mittens that were sewn to his sleeves, tied to a chair by a rope of which the knots were sealed with wax, concealing no instruments, he was placed behind a curtain. In front of the curtain was a table on which were placed a pail of hot paraffin, a bucket of water, a pencil and a sheet of paper with three names for identification. When the room was darkened, Conjurer...
...these indictments carefully weighed still present no valid reason why a person should not stroll across Boston Common at the first appearance of the tulips and the Swan-boats; wander through the vaunted architecture of Copley Square; mingle with a good natured, entertaining holiday crowd against a rope and before a policeman; gaze with awe at series of exhausted men who have run twenty-six miles for glory: and not, having done all this, enjoy it immensely...
...twinning among echinoderms to be caused by retardation of development in the egg. Whether this is true of the human ovum remains to be proved. What is true is that identical twins are the closest approximation to different human beings with exactly the same heredity. They form the original rope for the tug of war between Heredity and Environment...
...times are gone when his boyish posteriors used to be chastened by the laying on of a knotted rope end. That occurred when, as a stripling of 12, he ran away from home and signed on as cabin boy to a certain savage skipper. Today he controls the great Newcastle shipping firm of Runciman & Co., Ltd., and is proud to sit in the House of Commons. Prouder still is he of the fact that his son, also Walter, also sits in the House...
...ROPE-What no Southerner thinks about when the band plays Dixie (TIME...