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...charges of frame-up roared through innumerable demonstrations, Clarence Darrow was rushed to Los Angeles to defend them, Muckraker Lincoln Steffens busied himself trying to work out a compromise. Suddenly, on Dec. 1, 1911, James McNamara confessed. It was the greatest moral shock in U. S. labor history. A thin-faced, impassioned man, with intense blue eyes and a Theodore Roosevelt mustache, McNamara told reporters: "They say I will swing for this, but if I swing it will be for a principle. ... I am guilty, but I did what I did for principle and I did not intend to murder...
Banting found ways to get insulin from dogs without waiting for cell degeneration, then how to get ample quantities from the pancreas of cattle. The fateful question was: Would insulin save human diabetics? Joe Gilchrist, a doctor and a classmate of Banting's, was a thin, hopeless, broken diabetic living on the starvation diet that in those days postponed for a little while death from diabetic coma. He got some insulin. In a few hours his head was clear, his legs lost their heaviness, he felt as though he were walking on air. Joe Gilchrist...
...reported his position by radio, got the Atlanta weather from the tower. It was no bargain. The cloud base was only 300 feet off the ground and even this ceiling was variable. Standing on the ground, a man could see only one mile; beyond that range, drizzling rain and thin fog blotted out lights. Had the weather been a jot worse-it was down to CAA minimum-Jim Perry would have had to land somewhere else...
...hardy folk who didn't mind a little weather, the races proved sensational. Those with a propensity for picking long shots had the time of their lives. At odds of 58-to-1 ($118.40 for a $2 ticket) a scarred, thin-shanked, mussy-looking four-year-old named Bay View astonished even his owner by winning the Santa Anita. The bay-colored long shot beat Charles S. Howard's Mioland, the favorite, by a good half-length. He led all the way. His owners, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Pelleted, who had a $100 bet on him, pocketed...
...News, oldest U. S. magazine devoted to art, last week, with a new choir of angels, became a thick bi-weekly instead of a thin weekly, reduced its annual subscription from $7 to $4.50. Among its new backers: International Business Machines President Thomas J. Watson, Marshall Field III, archangel of the New York tabloid...