Word: brinkley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest charlatan in medical history," Fishbein thinks, was the late John R. Brinkley, famed "goat gland doctor," who narrowly missed being elected governor of Kansas. At one time Brinkley had three yachts, a 16-cylinder red Cadillac, diamond rings, an estate with great fountains illumined by his name in electric lights, and a $1,300,000 income from gullible patients who insisted on being grafted with goat glands (at $750 an operation). Fishbein observes that the only thing to do with "great charlatans of the Brinkley type" is to lock them up, but thinks that the public's gullibility...
...Tried & True. Starting in the fall, American Weekly covers will feature not just pretty-girl heads & shoulders, but Nell Brinkley-type dimpled beauties with legs out of Esquire. Inside, the magazine will continue to ask the tried & true question like: "If the Earth Becomes Uninhabitable-Where Shall We Go?" Only now the answers will look more authoritative...
Died. Nell Brinkley, 56, creator of the supercute Brinkley Girl (darling of the Hearst Sunday supplements for 30 years), veteran courtroom sketchmistress ; in New Rochelle...
Soon billboards screamed "Halo Wawa."Seattle newspapers snapped it on the end of news stories. Through the aisles of the Webster-Brinkley plant stalked Chief Yellow Lark, onetime janitor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in full tribal regalia. His answer to all questions: "Halo Wawa!" Over the central juke-box system into Seattle beer parlors came bugle calls followed by the stern admonition: "Watch your conversation! [Dramatic pause.] Halo Wawa...
Finally all except perjury charges against Brinkley were dropped. But last week a sixth grand jury completed the shoddy history, slapped police wrists, indicted no one. St. Louisans felt the case had gone full circle-from outrage to outrage...