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...demands that Mrs. Boegler be prosecuted, County Attorney Richard L. Becker said, "I cannot see that any laws are violated by these notes, and besides against such a person able to sway the divine will what could a mere mortal county attorney...
...Buffalo, N. Y. an alert newshawk turned up a willing candidate for euthanasia. She was Anna Becker, 34, a one-time nurse who was badly hurt in an automobile crash two years ago. Her teeth were knocked out. Her gums had failed to heal, she could eat no solid food and because of unhealed internal injuries even liquid food caused searing pain. Her legs swelled and hurt if she stood on them for a few minutes. She had been awarded damages of $6,000, of which she had collected nothing because of an insurance guarantor's bankruptcy...
...dying person is irrational and not responsible for what he says. If he recovers, his attitude is entirely different. ... I deplore the publicity that this [Miss Becker's] case has received and I feel that no editor would have featured this extremely morbid story if it had been in his own family. It is very unhealthy for American psychology...
Coming to Harvard this year as lecturers and tutors in Sociology are Edward Wight Bakke, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale, and Howard Paul Becker, Associate Professor of Sociology at Smith College. Dr. Bakke will be at Harvard during the second half-year and Dr. Becker during the first half-year...
...Cincinnati dock, one sultry afternoon, Mary Becker Greene stood in the wheelhouse of her newest steamboat, peered up the Ohio River, impatiently fingered the wheel. Hefty "Ma" Greene is the only licensed woman navigator on inland waterways in the U. S. With her two hefty sons, Tom and Chris, she operates the Greene Line, founded by her late husband. At 68, she can do most shipboard jobs, bosses her crews without profanity, likes to sew and embroider on deck. Recently "Ma" Greene bought for $135,000 the old-style packet Cape Girardeau which Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale...