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First Sign of Palsy. Paralysis agitans, or shaky palsy, is ordinarily an affliction of old age. But often it follows an attack of inflammation of the brain. To help detect the earliest signs of this palsy and combat it, Dr. Abraham Maurice Ornsteen of Philadelphia offered a suggestion which anyone can try in his own living room. The suspect holds both hands before his face, with all fingers clenched except fore finger and thumb. He then rapidly pats each forefinger against each thumb. Normally, the twitching is symmetrical in the two hands. In the abnormal state "one notes a definite...
Lawyer & Client. The newspaper world feels that a great publisher was lost when "Jack" Neylan, who looks like a well-groomed Abraham Lincoln, quit the San Francisco Call ten years ago to become general counsel for Mr. Hearst and all his enterprises. He had negotiated Hearst's purchase of that newspaper in 1919, taking the job of publisher with the late, crusading Fremont Older as editor. Virtually his first task was to deal with a reporters' strike. While rival publishers excitedly fired "agitators" from their staffs, Neylan soothingly sifted his own newshawks' grievances down to a complaint...
Died. Smith Stimmell. 92, last of Abraham Lincoln's Civil War bodyguard; in Fargo...
...second team consisting of Jay W. Kaufmann, Abraham J. Lehman, and John A. Sullivan, Jr. will journey to Yale on the same day to defend the negative against the Blue orators, the announcement also said...
University of Chicago's short, round Dean Aaron J. Brumbaugh worried privately for a week before he took two conservative-looking professors to call at Mr. Walgreen's office. Mr. Walgreen seated them among pictures of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, a lion, and a motto by Editor George Horace Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post), talked darkly of Reds and Sedition. As soon as they had gone he called his secretary, dictated a letter to the University's able young President Robert Maynard Hutchins: "With regret, I am having my niece. Miss Lucille Norton, discontinue her studies...