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...Liefmann, now a Canadian citizen, ever appears south of the border, federal marshals will be waiting for him with a warrant charging that in 1957 he was peddling a "cure" for male baldness. It contained female hormones...
...Well, what's the practical significance, Dr. Watson!" asked one; "will it cure cancer?" "Can we change heredity now, professor?" inquired another...
...victim of a congenital cancer of the left eye. Linda entered a Los Angeles hospital and was awaiting removal of the eye-an operation that sometimes saves a life and almost invariably prolongs it. But Chiropractor Marvin Phillips, 35, persuaded Linda's immigrant German parents that he could cure the child's cancer without an operation. He wanted $500, plus the cost of medicines (which came to $239 for vitamins, food supplements and a solution of iodine and water). Linda's parents paid. Linda died...
Under California law, any death that occurs during the commission of a grand theft is murder in the second degree. The state charged, and the jury agreed, that Chiropractor Phillips committed grand theft when he falsely represented that he could cure the child. Superior Court Judge Marcus Brandler sentenced Phillips to imprisonment for five years to life...
...indirectly helped to raise the general level of taste in the U.S.-a development that, in turn, has been mirrored in advertising itself. Even its critics concede that advertising has come a long way since the days when national magazines were littered with ads for nostrums that purported to cure everything from consumption to lost manhood, and when a U.S. soapmaker could bugle: "If we could teach the Indians to use SAPOLIO, it would quickly civilize them." Today most ads, if not 99, 44, 100% of them, strive for both taste and believability. And, assuming a continued increase...