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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the lunch hour, having swept her schoolroom, and put Mercurochrome on Gaylyn's cut finger, Miss Campbell found the going harder than in the morning. When Johnny, during a history lesson, remarked: "It sounds kind of goofy," Miss Campbell was shocked, said severely: "I don't think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

A few bold patients taught themselves to speak by swallowing air and belching it out in grunts, but until Temple University's Dr. Nathaniel Martin Levin built belch-talk into a system, most larynxless men could never hope to speak again. During the past three years, brief, brisk Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Belch-Talk | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Among successful belchers in good society: a New York lawyer who argues cases in court, a Philadelphia magistrate, several teachers. During the past month, Dr. Levin, with Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson, has shown belching sound films before the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the American College of Surgeons. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Belch-Talk | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Stretching for six blocks along Chicago's West Side are the seven dirty red brick buildings and the one clean yellow brick building of "Misery Harbor" (Cook County Hospital)-largest general hospital in the world. Through the gates of the hospital pour 135,000 charity patients every year, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Misery Harbor | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Medical Superintendent of the huge plant for 25 years was Dr. Karl Albert Meyer. A practical old-school surgeon, Dr. Meyer never required the hospital's army of interns to attend postgraduate classes or lectures, insisted that all young doctors fresh from college needed was "a heavy dose of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Misery Harbor | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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