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...Stockton, Calif, insane asylum last week died a fat old woman with wild white hair and a lame hip. She had been locked up for nearly half a century, happily certain that she was a great, rich lady, babbling endlessly about her memories. She could never keep her story straight, sometimes asserting that she had been married to President Lincoln and General Grant, or that the King of Italy was her foster father, or that she owned the Republic of Guatemala. But the daft old crone was not to be pitied, for she had lived greatly once and her true...
...hell of a mess, boys, but I'm going to get you out and take care of you!" He then telephoned Washington, for not only troops but also doctors from the U. S. Public Health Service to help set up a prison camp on the State Insane Asylum Grounds. Tennessee. The Cumberland, one of the nation's most picturesque streams, went ugly in Middle Tennessee. At Clarksville (pop. 9.200) the river reached an alltime high of 62 ft.. 24 ft. above flood stage...
Communist Paradoxes. In Moscow the official Soviet Foreign Office spokesman told correspondents amiably and without heat that the Stalin Regime has "no objection to Mexico's granting asylum to Trotsky," adding perfunctorily, "so long as Trotsky is not permitted to use Mexico as a base for plotting against the Soviet Union...
...patient in an asylum for the first time, the Ste. Anne Municipal Hospital for Mental & Nervous Disorders...
...DIARY OF VASLAV NIJINSKY- Edited by Romola Nijinsky-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Last intelligible words of the great dancer, written in the year before his commitment to the insane asylum, making a grisly study which occasional overtones of schizophrenic humor do not relieve...