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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married- William Bateman Leeds, 34, son & namesake of the late tin-plate tycoon; and Olive Hamilton, 23, onetime Atlantic City telephone operator; aboard Mr. Leeds's yacht Moana, off Miami. Since 1930, when he rescued her from, drowning at Atlantic City, N. J., they have been constant companions. His first wife was Russian Princess Xenia Romanov. Married. Mrs. Henry Symes Lehr, 64, author last year of a sensational biography of her dead husband, "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age; and John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, 70; in Paris. Divorced. Crooner Rudy Vall...
...Christian doctor gave him a stove, a table, some chairs and an old carpet. His family supplied linen. From a second-hand store he got two beds. With that he started Chicago's first maternity dispensary in a $12-a-month flat in a Ghetto tenement. "Constant poverty threatened to close the place," reminisced Dr. DeLee, who later charged $2,000 to $3,000 for a delivery, in Kansas City last week. "On one occasion 13? and half a loaf of stale bread represented the floating assets of the institution. I went home and borrowed $10 from my father...
...supposed to serve as the first-act scenery. Faithful to the stage directions, Wronski had wanted horses for the second act, engaged them with their drivers from a local coal company called Pittman & Dean. The horses were reasonably patient, but the drivers took too much to drink during the constant delays. Finally they emerged on stage slapping the animals' rumps, shouting boisterously: "Yea, Pittman & Dean! Yea, Pittman & Dean...
...social cross-section is to be concentrated upon, the Houses should be made as attractive as possible to the maximum number of groups. It has been the most constant complaint, coming strangely enough from both sides, that the men from Eton and Harrow by their yearly desertion deal the most telling blow to the whole House plan. In the majority of cases this exodus could be prevented by a more elastic system of admissions. Arrangements should be made, if necessary by shifting about the present occupants, so that each year a great number of neighboring vacancies would occur. Houses should...
...artificial respiration. Dr. Wilson: "The lapse of one minute may be enough, through the absence of oxygen, to damage permanently the cells of the respiratory centre. Once the drug reaches the new born infant's general circulation, the respiratory gasp takes place in less than twelve seconds. Three constant reactions occur within one to four seconds before the respiratory gasp-an increase in muscle tonus, a stiffening of the arms, and a slight opisthotonos [arching of the back]." Commented Dr. George William Kosmak, conscientious editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology: "I have no desire to belittle...