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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recorded in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Although the sources of its statistics make it seem likely that the figures are accurate, the Journal adds 2% for delayed reports and possible omissions, making the total reported num-ber 2,621. Forty physicians died under 30 years of age; 703 between 61 and 70; 513 between 71 and 80; 218 between 80 and 90; 33 between 91 and 100 and one lived to be 102. The greatest number of deaths for a given age occurred at 68 years, 79 being noted...
...Boris Sidis, eminent authority on psychopathology, decided when his son was born to give him a more intensive education than the American school, with what Dr. Boris called at the time its "discipline and routine," its "rubbish and refuse," could furnish. The boy could read and write at the age of two; at seven he passed the Harvard Medical School examinations in anatomy; at eight he could speak French, Russian, English, German, and could read Latin and Greek; at ten he entered Tufts; and at eleven he entered Harvard, graduating in 1914. He taught mathematics in Rice Institute, Texas, returned...
...Story. Meyer Hirsch tells the story of his life. First and foremost he was a Jew. Later he was a professional Jew-the Jew in politics. On a keen December evening "in ramshackle New York during the sprawling awkward age of its growth," Meyer, only child of sweatshop workers, grandson of a horse thief, returns from cheder (Hebrew school) to the "two little dark rooms in a rear house, kerosene lamps, water from the yard pump, toilet in back yard . . not even enough crockery or eating things," occupied by his parents and maternal uncle, Philip Gold. Nine years...
Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, will retire in 1925 at the age of 70. His probable successor is W. W. Atterbury, Vice President, in charge of operation...
Died. Kate Terry (Mrs. Arthur Lewis), 79, oldest living member of the famous Terry family of actors and actresses, in London. She made her first stage appearance in 1847 at the age of three, singing I'm Ninety- Five and dancing the Jockey Dance. Her last appearance was in 1906, at Drury Lane in a jubilee testimonial to Ellen; she was Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing...