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...regrettable but persistent rumor was to the effect that early last week the "family doctors" found themselves in doubt upon several minor features of the case and therefore summoned further consultants. Sir Stanley Hewett was said to have called in Sir E. Farquhar Buzzard, and Lord Dawson was believed to have summoned Sir Humphry Rolleston. Presently these names were added to the signatures appearing beneath each bulletin displayed in every post office throughout Great Britain. To post up the Buckingham Palace bulletin not typewriter script, but inch-high black lettering was used...
Between his summer home on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., and his brokerage offices in Manhattan, Richard F. Hoyt commutes at 100 miles an hour. He uses a Loening amphibian biplane, sits lazily in a cabin finished in dark brown broadcloth and saddle leather, with built-in lockers containing pigskin picnic cases. Pilot Robert E. Ellis occupies a forward cockpit, exposed to the breezes. But occasionally Broker Hoyt wishes to pilot himself. When this happens he pulls a folding seat out of the cabin ceiling, reveals a sliding hatch. Broker Hoyt mounts to the seat, opens the hatch, inserts...
William Tatem Tilden, captain of the U. S. Davis Cup forces, gave up his role in The Buzzard (drama) to start a training camp for Davis Cup players at Augusta...
...Buzzard. John Collier was dead. Of that there could be no doubt whatever. But the members of the cast of Broadway's newest murder play thought that if they pretended John Collier was still alive, his murderer would reappear to investigate. So they pretended, as hard as and as long as they could. Now and again, some one of them would claim to be the culprit until at last the true culprit admitted her identity. Then the audience, which had begun to imagine that it would have to wait for a death bed confession, trooped wearily away. There...
King George V's Physician Extraordinary, Edward Farquhar Buzzard, in London last week, took "the courage of my profession in my two hands" and warned religious faith healers not to interfere with mental hygiene efforts. Said he, a neurologist: "We [doctors] make no claim to cure disease. I look forward to a day when the church will have courage to say that it makes no claim to spiritual healing...