Word: berton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PEGASUS PULLS A HACK ? Berton Braley?Minton, Batch...
...Book of Chronicles" rather than a "Book of Revelation" is Berton Braley's description of his autobiography. Despite the sniffs of critics, Braley has made a good living out of what some people call "poetry." He has published nearly 9,000 "poems" or, according to his reckoning, ten linear miles of poetic feet...
...sanatorium or nursing home to be operated on the principles of his Mother Church, governed only by State law. Such institutions are scattered over the U. S. and England. To one of them, Ten Acres near Princeton, N. J., last June was taken Charles E. Berton, 20, his neck fractured in a diving accident (TIME, July 3). He was put to bed, given whatever liquid nourishment he could swallow. The rest was left to God and prayer. In 24 hours Charles Berton was dead...
Last week Christian Scientists explained that Ten Acres' charter already forbade acceptance of surgical cases, that Charles Berton had been admitted by the head nurse in the absence of the sanatorium's officials...
...case of Charles Berton was more complicated than that. Father Berton, although a firm Christian Scientist, said he had walked three miles for a doctor who treated his son for lacerations of the scalp. The doctor, said Father Berton, had offered little hope: the son was "physically dead but mentally alive." Ten Acres Sanitarium was chartered only to receive patients with mild disorders. Acute cases were not to be admitted. Yet two doctors were supposed to be on call. Authorities said that a doctor was called only after Charles Berton died. The Sanitarium's license was suspended pending investigation...