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With the same energy she had put into suffrage fights, she helped bring the palsied Tribune back to life. She learned to sell advertising the hard way-on the street. She had a lot to say in the Trib's rise to its present high place, a pinnacle that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Trib's Mrs. Reid | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

When he was just a kid, Roy Beebe decided that illness was unnecessary. He resolved to spend his life hunting for a cureall. In 1910 he saw Halley's comet through a homemade telescope and decided that human ailments are caused by static. He had quit school after the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Cosmic Clinic | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

A Leaf, a Hand. They found something very comforting about Beebe. He looked like a prospector, a stooped, greying man in khaki shirt, riding breeches and high-laced boots. He was always calm, dignified and assured. He wanted no money. Unlike doctors, he recited no baffling mumbo jumbo, but merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Cosmic Clinic | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Then, as it must to all innovators, came criticism. Beebe's neighbors went to the city prosecutor, complained that Beebe was a nuisance. The neighbors. Beebe explained, were just full of static. His followers outnumbered the neighbors.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Cosmic Clinic | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Last week crowds were still mobbing the Beebe house and tramping across the neighbors' lawns. The city manager was checking ordinances to see if Beebe had committed any violations. Beebe didn't seem to be paying much attention. He was preparing to publish a catalogue containing photographs of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Cosmic Clinic | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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