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...illegal operations were well underway. One afternoon last week 15 cops, some disguised as carpenters, others as moving men, surrounded the building and jimmied their way into apartment 36. In the kitchen, turned into a well-appointed operating room, they found an old acquaintance: Dr. Leopold W. A. Brandenburg, 61, of Union City, N.J., who has been having police trouble, off & on, since...
When the cops arrived, Dr. Brandenburg was dressed in surgeon's gown and mask. A gynecologist who went along on the raid in case of a medical emergency said that the women patients (unlike most who go to abortionists) were getting almost every drug and precaution that they would get in a hospital...
...police say that Dr. Brandenburg had two assistants working in other states and operated in New York on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. His organization, they say, performed eight to 14 abortions a day. At an average of $400 an operation, the mill should have grossed some $500,000 a year. The surgeons, of course, did not get all of it. Much went to steerers and lookouts...
...Trouble. Brandenburg's technical proficiency will do him little good before the law, which considers a well-performed abortion quite as criminal as a bungled one. The doctor's record will do him no good either. Dr. Brandenburg was first accused of performing abortions in 1942 (no conviction). His most publicized scrape was over an alleged surgical altering of a criminal's fingerprints (his three-year sentence for "concealing knowledge of a crime" was set aside on the ground that he had concealed no offense defined by federal statute...
...Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides). The English orchestra is Bach-size and plays excellently one of the most felicitous of the six Brandenburg concertos...