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Three Chicago women, hired for their heft, last week hopped on scales to show what a week's competitive dieting had done for them. In blatant co-operation to teach rumpy Chicagoans how to reduce were Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen. president of Chicago's Board of Health. Dr. William I. Fishbein, able young brother of the American Medical Association's Dr. Morris Fishbein. and William Randolph Hearst. Mr. Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, which hired the women because their chunky thighs and beefy arms would photograph well, instigated and made great ado over bananas...
...bananas and a glass of skimmed milk was all the nourishment that Alice Joy received at any meal. Drs. Bundesen and Fishbein also allowed her some coffee and tea (without sugar or cream) and large quantities of water. A week of that diet lost her 4½ lb., brought her down to 135¾ lb., made her whimper: "I'm hungry. And I'm tired. I couldn't lick a kitten...
...colorless, reticent onetime drug clerk, Dr. Moyer was snatched from an undistinguished career as a clinical pathologist to guard Pittsburgh's health. Around him last week swirled the same charges of suppression which were piled on Chicago's Health President Bundesen after he made his long-delayed announcement of the amebic dysentery epidemic last autumn. It seemed evident that Pittsburgh's Health Department had suspected something wrong since mid-January, when McCreery's and another pet shop received dead and dying birds in shipments from California. The Department quarantined all the birds for ten days, then...
...November 1933, as A Century of Progress was closing, President Herman Niels Bundesen of Chicago's Board of Health revealed that an outbreak of amebic dysentery, beginning in Chicago in mid-August, had spread over the U. S. Already many a Fairgoer, his physician having failed to recognize the comparatively rare ailment, had died and on many another Fairgoer the disease had laid its grip (TIME...
...Chicago's tragedy the curtain went up last week when attorneys for Dr. Clarence Boren & wife of Marinette, Wis., both of whom had stayed at the Congress Hotel and had contracted dysentery, filed the first suit resulting from the epidemic. It asked $300,000 damages each from Dr. Bundesen and the Congress. The charge : To protect his reputation and its financial interests Dr. Bundesen and the hotel had "wilfully and wantonly" sup pressed news of the epidemic. In defense, publicity-loving Dr. Bundesen pointed only to the following statement by Dr. Roscoe R. Spencer of the U. S. Public...