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...collect from local committees, are a tightly-knit, secretive, high-pressure group of Manhattan agents who have field representatives scattered throughout the U. S. They get 25% of lecture fees, 50% if they also supply railroad fare. Biggest of the four firms dominating the field is that of William Colston Leigh, burly, smartly-dressed Manhattan businessman who handles Carl Sandburg, Mrs. Roosevelt, some 37 other ranking literary figures. Oldest in the business is William ("Pop") B. Feakins, whose 35 authors, including leftists like John T. Flynn and rightists like Lawrence Dennis (The Coming American Fascism), generally lecture on serious social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Authors to the Road | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Young, with the aid of his brother-in-law, Dr. John Archibald Campbell Colston, transformed one pseudohermaphrodite by grafting a pair of testicles taken from a healthy 18-year-old Maryland convict a few minutes after he was hanged. The cure lasted for three years, when the patient lost his self-confidence, regained his effeminate obesity, disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abnormalities | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...will interest you to know that TIME has been instrumental in introducing the new anti-gonorrheal treatment by Dr. Colston of Johns Hopkins into the French Foreign Legion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: TIME to Legion | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Blennorrhagie being one of the most frequent infections amongst our men, we immediately proceeded to use the French drug "Rubiozol" instead of the American "Pronty-lin" and an investigation by the chief medical officer here is under way and will be reported upon to Dr. Colston, who has been communicated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: TIME to Legion | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Colston's discovery of gonorrhea's simplest treatment is the result of a vast medical centre functioning ideally. Several months ago Johns Hopkins' Dr. Perrin Long heard of London experiments with Prontylin. sped there for first-hand investigation, sped back to Johns Hopkins for experiments on patients suffering from streptococcic septicemia. hurried into print and onto lecture platforms with his reports. Dr. Long and Dr. Eleanor Bliss, who collaborated with him throughout on streptococci, next applied Prontylin to the meningococci which cause spinal menngitis. The meningococcus is a close relative of the gonococcus and Dr. Long, busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prontylin for Gonorrhea | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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