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In 1918, when the movies were young, silent and reasonably carefree, an actor named Elmo Lincoln donned a leopardskin, yodeled, and dove from a studio tree into a studio tank. Thus began a series of films about an ape man named Tarzan, a character based loosely on the hero of...
Arrest after arrest followed in the next few weeks, as the girls accused people at random during their hysterical trances. At first the victims were generally people of eccentric habits--many were not church members and the Puritan community had small sympathy for them. But as the craze spread, no...
MAMY L. BURROUGHS
After much frantic searching, Coolidge found Davis a fellowship--$3,000 from Burroughs Wellcome, a pharmactutical company.
The radical proposal was the result of ten years' study of foreign trade, much of it done under the direction of Board President John S. Coleman, president of Burroughs Adding Machine Co., which does business around the world. As the Board's report was issued, Coleman sent a...