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...When Sir Augustus d'Este (a cousin of Queen Victoria*) fell ill, he made a careful note of his symptoms: he saw double, could scarcely balance himself, felt weak all over, and parts of his body were numb. That was in 1822, and for a century and a quarter, physicians could do nothing more for the illness he described than to give it a name: multiple sclerosis. There are at least 250,000 victims in the U.S. alone; most are disabled by it in the prime of life. D'Este, a typical case, lingered for 26 years...
...besides being absurdly expensive and detrimental to the appearance of the plaque, would not merely cease to honor Adolf Sannwald, but would actively dishonor him. A very minor error has been committed. Why spend money merely to make the plaque look worse and perhaps to hurt someone's feelings. Augustus J. Fabens...
...other officers named yesterday were Richard S. Dolins of Holworthy, and Guy J. Clannavel, the commuter representative who will handle Entertainment. Frederick L. Bernstein of Hollis and Augustus L. Smith of Straus will tackle the pressing liquor problem and T. Russell McGrath will be in charge of staging the show...
WHRB will also get a separate cable direct to Symphony Hall, which will permit trading of certain programs. William Lamb '52, Augustus Fabens '53, and David G. Kaye '54, all of station WHRB, will do the technical work on installing the cables...
...Joseph Augustus Winter is an M.D. who got into dianetics in its early, science-fiction days. Physician Winter, a Manhattan psychosomaticist, was impressed by Hubbard's theory that the mind can register impressions ("engrams") even during unconsciousness. And he was soon convinced that the dianetics technique of relieving emotional upsets by reliving them before another dianetics devotee ("auditing") was an improvement on psychoanalysis. An auditing session, says Dr. Winter, cured his six-year-old son of a fear of the dark and ghosts. Winter also credits his son with "remembering," thanks to dianetics, the process of his birth...