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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johansson fight was Harlem's Anthony ("Tony Fat") Salerno, 48, according to Hogan "a known gambler, bookmaker and policy operator," and a friend of Frankie Carbo, leading light in boxing's dim underworld. Rosensohn said that Velella was only a front man for Tony Fat (who had found it convenient to disappear), later went on the air in New York City to state blithely that he had willingly sought out Salerno for his bankroll and "influence...
...dogs that had died of the disease, Surgeon Segal found the heartworms nestled together in the pulmonary artery. Then he operated on live dogs from the pound. Again the worms were neatly concentrated, so he was able to cut out the mass and restore full blood flow through the artery. The operation, says Dr. Segal, is similar to that used to correct stenosis (narrowing) of the pulmonary artery in children. The work, therefore, affords valuable practice and may turn up information of value in human surgery. Since he rates it as research and not a medical service, Dr. Segal collects...
...through the brain and other physical components of the nervous system, so Jones became a neurologist. (So was Freud.) Next, he went through a phase of studying medical uses of hypnotism. (So did Freud.) Then he discovered Freud's early writings on psychoanalysis, and knew that he had found the one true faith...
Like early converts to many another unpopular faith, Jones soon found himself persecuted. In 1906 two small children complained to a teacher that he had "behaved indecently" with them while making a speech test. Jones was arrested, and, although the case was eventually dismissed, it left him a marked man. Later he tried analytic treatment on a girl of ten with hysterical paralysis of the left arm, decided that the origin of the paralysis lay in an incident of sexual "play" with a slightly older boy. For Dr. Jones to discuss sex with a little girl struck Edwardians as outrageous...
Four years later, after borrowing some film footage from Colonel John Craig, a latter-day Richard Halliburton, Douglas sold a series of adventure shows. Since then, I Search for Adventure has found pay dirt in everything from elephant hunts to mountain climbing. Douglas followed up with Golden Voyage, an unashamed imitation of old-fashioned movie travelogues, then tried an underwater series called Kingdom of the Sea. By 1956, when he started Bold Journey, another version of Search, Douglas was one of the best markets a traveling movie photographer could find. His own camera crews ranged the world, reporting...