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When men count off the baker's dozen of eminent U. S. women doctors they point to Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, 50, Manhattan pediatrician, and Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen, 70, Chicago gynecologist and obstetrician, as outstanding practitioners. They point to Chicago's Dr. Gladys R. Henry Dick for her scarlet fever work (with her husband) and Maude Slye, 54, who, although no doctor, is an eminent cancer researcher...
...essay on "Two Forgotten New England Reformers" by Bertha-Monica Stearns is perhaps the most important and generally appealing part of this issue of the Quarterly. In the persons of Mrs. Mary Gove Nichols and Dr. T. L. Nichols, Miss Stearns has found a more attractive aspect of the reforming intellectuals in 19th century America, an aspect which books like Gilbert Seldes' "The Stammering Century" have tended to cover up. The lives of these two New Englanders, veering sometimes towards faddisms, nevertheless possessed a consistent and admirable idealism and rose above the sordid dementia of most of the contemporary nostrums...
...Died. Bertha Martin, onetime Washington apartment house telephone operator, later society editor of Edward Beale McLean's Washington Post, frequent visitor to "the little green house on K Street" and intimate of "The Ohio Gang"; by her own hand (gas); in Washington...
...other Pacific Coast orchestra has a dependable backer. President Jacob Bertha Levison of the San Francisco Musical Association is not rich enough to support an orchestra and he would prefer playing his flute at home to wrestling any longer with deficits. In Portland this autumn players in the symphony are donating 10% of their salaries to help make the season possible. The Seattle Symphony will give only five concerts under dreamy British Basil Cameron whose contract was not renewed at the end of last season in San Francisco...
...Democrat, but denied she held the account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded man in Wall Street"). Arthur William Cutten, once Chicago's best known bull. Marquis de San Miguel. Herbert L. Dillon of Eastman, Dillon &; Co. Stnyvesant Fish. Bertha, Joseph and Paolino Gerli (silk). Thomas Montgomery Howell, Chicago grain operator, who last summer cornered 70%, of the visible corn supply, squeezed shorts, said: "I go along, ask no quarter, don't give any." Coleman F. Madden, known on race tracks as "Handsome Coley," who recently told friends...