Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain J. F. W. Whitbeck '27 and Charles Watson III, leader of the Blue forces. Following is the draw for the first team matches: Whitbeck vs. Watson; L. H. Gordon '27 vs. McGlinn; B. H. Whitbeck '29 vs. Jackson; Stephen Thompson '27 vs. Reed; J. H. Appleton '29 vs. Barker; T. O. Kingsbury '27 vs. Mahan. In the doubles, Whitbeck and Gordon will pair off against Watson and McGlinn, Kingsbury and B. H. Whitbeck against Jackson and Barker; Appleton and J. C. Reuter '28 against Barker and Mahan...
...Herbert Atkinson Barker, whose name bonesetters use as incantation against the curses of "regular" doctors, reached Manhattan last week from Kingston, Jamaica. Yet few on the pier knew him to be the man who for 40 years has been unlimbering stiff knees, setting dislocated joints, curing flat feet; whom Great Britain knighted for his orthopedic work on War wrecks; for whom Dr. F. W. Axham lost professional caste and died last year scorned by doctors (TIME, April 19, 1926) ; who wrote the article on "Mani-pulative Surgery" in the newest version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
Although "regular" medical men scorn "Manipulative Surgeon" Barker's methods for not being based on the surgical science that they know, there can be no minimizing of his successes. Recently, while disporting himself in the waters of the Gulf of Genoa (at Alassio where he now lives in modest dalliance), he struck his head against bottom. When he reached surface (he told his Manhattan greeters last week), his head hurt; his neck was stiff; he could not turn his head. Something was out of joint. He wrapped his powerful fingers about his neck, manipulated the bones, wrenched. There...
Love Is Like That. S. N. Behrman wrote The Second Man (TIME, April 25). Kenyon Nicholson wrote The Barker (TIME, Jan. 31). One is a wise, brilliant comedy; the other, a colorful, throbbing melodrama. In the creation of Love Is Like That, they collaborated. By combining their efforts they seem to have detracted from the ability of both for Love Is Like That tries to impose heroics of romanticism upon comedy of manners, a process automatically self-canceling. What is left are attractive scenery, one or two bits of good acting, a few, isolated, clever lines. Vladimir Dubriski (Basil Rathbone...
...last year's 135-pound champion, will stage a bout with R. Thomas '30, and J. F. Colbert 1L will box E. A. Sack Jr. '28. J. Parkinson '29 will be opposed by H. J. Cohen 2L in the 160-pound division. Also in this class A. S. Barker 2G.B. will find himself in face with N. G. Lauris '30. In the 175-pound class R. E. Johnson '27 will box I. Markwett, '28. The heavy-weight title will be decided between E. H. Bradford Spec. and W. W. Lord...