Word: degreeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having finally been forced to conclude his career as a bogus college professor, Marvin Hewitt, the degreeless wonder who got seven academic posts under four different names (TIME, March 15), received an offer from the city where his father was killed while on duty as a police sergeant. Wrote Philadelphia's Managing Director Robert K. Sawyer: "If your masquerade is really over, it might be possible to find a place for you and your family here...
Died. Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker, 81, self-styled "manipulative surgeon" whose skill in repairing dislocated joints and stiff knees with his fingers brought him fame, fortune, knighthood and-after the orthodox had long spurned him as a degreeless bonesetter-professional recognition; in Lancaster, England...