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want you kids to have a good
time." Whatever Freed said, the
effect was magical. The Arena
really began jumping — while
Brown paced his office, °pray-
ing it would end".
A while before midnight the
wound-up kids spilled into the
streets. Just who was respon-
sible for what happened next is
a matter of dispute. ,All around
the Arena common citizens were
set upon, robbed and sometimes
beaten. A young sailor caught a
knife in the belly, and two girls
with him were thrashed. In all,
nine men and six women were
roughed up enough to require
hospital treatment. Boston po-
lice blamed Freed and his fre-
netic fans, but could not prove it,
since they nabbed nobody.
Freed's defenders pointed out
that the Arena area has been the
site of frequent muggings' in
the past; the toughs might simp-
ly have used the crowds pouring
out of the Arena as a cover,
But Boston's Mayor John
Hypes did not want to hear
arguments • or, evidence. He
ordered that no licenses 'be is-
sued for any more rock 'n' roll
shows, and a Boston grand jury
.returned an indictment against
Freed—under an old "anti.-
anarchy" law — for inciting "the
unlawful destruction of prop-
erty". Professing alarm, and
perhaps jumpy' over 'growing ,
criticism of juvenile delinquency,
officials in New Haven and New-
ark seized on the Boston incident
as an excuse to ban scheduled
Freed appearances.
Freed promptly quit his
$25,000-a-year job with Man-
hattan's radio station WINS be-
cause it "failed to stand behind
my policies and principles", and
returned to his Stamford, Conn,
home to contemplate his griev-
ances. Snapped Freed: "Those
kids in Boston were the greatest
—swell, wonderful kids. But the
police were terrible.'
—From Time.
Deadly Pattern
They call it Olaotha, and pray
to the goddess Ma Olaichandi to
'keep it way. But each year the
people of Calcutta know that
before the reviving monsoon
rains arrive some time in June,
the infection will sweep through
their steaming and, fetid streeta,
sometimes killing as many as
half, of those 'it touches. Eyen,
for a city stamped by the World
Health Organization as the
"worst cholera epidemic area in
the world," this year's outbreak
has been especially bad. At one
point the Nilratan Sarkar hos-
pital, which specializes in treat-
ing the disease, was admitting
a new patient every four min-
utes, the highest admission rate
ytheearshospital has known in 20
All day, Vans equipped with
loudspeakers ,drive through the
city begging people to get inecti-
lated. In narrow alleys 'drum-
mers parade like town driers',
carrying the same' message, But
as in every year, all these 'efforts
have come too late, Though 400
inoculators have been at work.
since November, they reached
only 300,000 out of 4,000,000 peo-
ple in five months, One reason:
the money for the necessary
lipyodermic syringes just" never
showed up. When the epidemic
Struck in earnest, five of the
city's 22 ambulances had been
condemned as useless, and ten
More were Under repair. Only
one driVer Was oh duty at a
time to answer :call's for help,
Everyone knows that Cal-
cutta's Water System is i)re-,
variously close to collapse, but
it has riot been overhauled since
1926. Sewage invariably seeps
into' 'the drinking water, carry-
ing possible death to every tap,
In spite of a belated garbage-,
collecting 'campaign, piles of
refuse still lies festering -along
Calcutta's winding "gullies", and
oh street after 'Street, venders
dered aimlessly about the streets
of Liverpool, tortured by feel-
ings of guilt, To make matters
worse, be 'had no overcoat and
the night was bitterly cold.
Another, youngster in distress
was a girl who, at seventeen,
embarked on a passionate affair
with a married man much older
thariherself. Conducted discreet-
ly, this affair lasted four years.
The man may not have been
greatly troubled, but the girl was
tormented by guilt and shame
to such, an extent that she tried
to drown herself in a river.
She was saved, but when she
married someone else and went
to South Africa, she found she
was unable to shake off her guilt
complex. Try as she would to be
a good Wife, she was hampered
by spasdomie attacks which
brought on vicious headaches
and made her perspire and trem-
ble.
For five years the girl suffered
under these tortures, then a
friend ,persuaded. her. to, see a
psychiatrist. He discovered the
reason for her nervous prostra-
dims,. treeing it all back to that
secret love affair.
Though She was now living in
a usually sunny climate, 6,000
miles from London, her fits of
pain and despair .had occurred
during spells .of cloudy, heavy.
weather such as she, had known
at the time of her unhappy,affair.
Now, through treatment based
on this knowledge, ,she has cast
aside the nightinare of the past,
and is becoming a normal wife.
Rock 'n' Riot
Wrapped in a package called•
'The Big Beat", Dick, Jockey
Alan Freed has long rolled across
the land, introducing rock •
roll stars and keynoting gone
music, with the express intention
of inciting his teen-age followers
to happy frenzy. Last month; the
acknowledged "King of Rock 'n'
Roll" rolled into. Boston and set
up shop in its 7,200-seat Arena.
Almost 5,000 hip kids poured in
-the Arena to catch his 17 acts,
including four bands, and star-
ring Dreamboat Crooner Jerry
Lee Lewis. .
Frenzy soon set in. The aisles
filled with dancers, and others
got into the groove by jumping
on their seats. The head of the
20 cops on hand decided that
more light on the subject would
help curb the crowd's antics. The
house lights were turned up.
Then, according to Arena Man-
ager Paul Brown, sitcere-faced
"Deejay" Freed huffed "I guess
the police Ifere in Boston don't
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trying to find a way .or opening
them.
They Met with no success and
eventually gave up.
A week later they were again
offered oysiers, but as soon as
they recognized what they were
they took no further interest in
them, and made on attempt to
open them,
Lobsters are more difficult for
the octopus to catch. than crabs,
it is the lobster'S claws whieh.
are the danger. Once the octo-
pus has managed to grip these
with its -suckers the lobster is
vanquished, but a prlanged bat-
tle of wits may occur before a
really big lobster is over-
powered.
An octopus is always a great
attraction in an aquarium, but
it can also be a headache, Dur-
ing night it often has an urge
to visit other tanks to see what
it can find, and has an amazing
ability to squeeze through nar,,
row openings. Unless a really
octopus-proof cover can be de-
vised for its tank, the aquarium's
lobsters and' crabs are likely to
be converted into heaps of
broken shells.
When it leaves its lair at night
the octopus has three methods of
moving about in the water, If it
wants to go really fast it does
so by jet-propulsion — achieved
by breathing fast. Streams of
water are always being drawn
'into the gill cavity and, after
passing over the gills, expelled
through a tube called the siphon.
When an octopus is at rest these
gentle breathing movements are.
easily seen.
1337 breathing much faster the
water is forced out of the siphon
in powerful jets, each capable of
shooting the animal backwards
for two or three yards. At other
times it waves its arms gently in
the water to move itself slowly
forward, or walks along the sea
bed on the tips of its arms,
Mr. Sinclair, of Torquay
Aquarium, has been particularly
''successfu during the past few
years at keeping octopuses alive
in tanks for considerable per-
iods. He believes that a captive.
octopus needs some kind of oc-
cupation, and always provides
his specimens with heaps 'of
stones and small pieces of rock,
With these they will sometimes .
play for hours, rolling the rocks
about and piling them up in vari-
ous parts of their tanks.
On one occasion a companion
was introduced into a tank in
which a solitary octopus had
lived fOr some time with its pile
of stones. The new arrival soon
became interested in these, and
started to raid the pile in order
to build a heap of its own.
The owner, however, had no
intention of sharing its goods
with the newcomer, and almost
as fast as one,,removed theni the
other moved,away to bring them
back. The diffieculty was finally
solved, and any possibility of
war between the two averted, by
prOviding the newcomer with a
second heap all to itself.
After this both seethed con-
tented, and very little "borrow-
ing" ever occurred. •
TES, WE GOT NO BONURA
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toward second, the outfielder
fired to first where Zeke grabbed
it and almost nipped the run-
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was surprised to hear Mrs. Grif—
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the ball go through?"
To which the tnissus replied,
"Yes, but he got it on the way
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When an attractive young girl
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Until the accident she had nu-
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When youngsters first fall in
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She clung to him with such
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police had ,to be called to drag
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A beautiful nineteen-year-old
Japanese princess dell in love
with a railwayman's son, their
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high circles.
"I absolutely forbid the mar-
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the princess's mother. But the
printes, Pu Hui-sheng, a niece
of the former Emperor of Man-
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' much in love.
Her mother, however, wrote
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arms.
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She tipleaded, "I'll forgive you
everything."
But the lovers had disappear=
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tess Vas broadcast over Tokyo
Radio' and headlined in the news,
papers. •
It was toe late;, the message
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her lover, They were found by
a picnic party on a mountain
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ISSUE got ' atm
A Sheill-tess Snail
With Lots. Of Arms.
Most people ',1egard the octo-
pus with horror, yet it js really
one of the meat remarkable Of
aca eiehtisireS, and twining like
no sinister as peptalar fiction
Would have ue believe.
it is difficult to decide which
its the greater marvel — its pe-
culiar structure, or the high de-
,gree of intelligence underlying
its interesting habits,
Who would believe that the
octopus is related to the snail
and the whelk? Or that its re-
mote ancestors many millions of
years ago lived in a coiled shell?
The shell has been lost, 'and
the fiat muscular foot on which
the ancestral octopus glided
along like a snail has been con-
verted into eight formidable
arms each with an array of high-
ly effiecient suckers, arranged in
two rows and graded in size to
match the gradual tapering of
the arms.
In the centre of this ring of
arms is the creature's mouth,
complete with horny jaws very
much like a parrot's beak to look
at, and just as effective.
The octopus' brain is so well
developed that it is among the
most intelligent of all animals
without backbones, and its eyes
are among the most efficient in
the animal kingdom.
It is in its huntina
b
and feeding
habits that the octopus shows
its intelligence. Crabs and lob-
sters are its favourite food, and
consequently it is not very popu-
lar with fishermen, It often gets
into their lobster pots, leaving
behind a collection of empty
ah ells.
The octopus is mainly an in-
shore animal, hiding during the
daytime under overhanging
rocks, where it is always on the
alert for any unwary crab which
may come within range, obli-
vious of its presence. When this
does happen one of the eight
arms shoots out, not to grip the
crab with suckers, but to give
it a gentle flick between the eyes
with the thin flexible tip.
The crab seems to be com'-
pletely hypnotized by the sudden
appearance of the octopus, be-
cause although it brandishes its
claws and raises sits body — a
typical defensive .attitude — it
offers no resistance as the octo-
pus grips it and draws it into its
lair.
The eight arms are connected
by a fleshy webbing forming a
kind of umbrella under which
the crab is improsoned until re-
quired. By the time the feast
begins as many as a dozen crabs
may have been collected. These
are then pulled apart joint by
joint, the meat being extracted
by the thin tips of the arms and
carried to the mouth.
Many stories illustrate the in-
telligence of the octopus. Al-
though it will never eat fish un-
less desperately hungry, it has
been known to kill a small fish
and poke it outside its lair as
a bait to attract unwary crabs.
It is partial to oysters, mussels
and other bivalves, but is not
strong enough to open the shells
if these are closed.
One specimen was observed.
watching a large mussel for
hours, apparently aware that
sooner or later it would open up.
When at last it did, the octopus
quickly pushed a small stone be-
tween the valves so that they
could not be closed again, and
proceeded at leisure to claim his
reward.
Another incident .demonstrates
clearly the memory of the octo-
pus. Some captive specimens
known to be hungry were given
Some oysters. For a long time
they examined the shells with.
the tips of their rarms, obviously