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Georgia School of Technology (Atlanta, Ga...
Oglethorpe University (Oglethorpe University, Ga...
...went swimming in the icy Bay of Fundy. Exhausted, he, aged 39, was stricken with infantile paralysis. In 72 hr. his body was dead from the waist down. His physician told him he would never walk again. But he began to try, first on crutches. At Warm Springs, Ga. he found mineralized water that seemed to help his shriveled legs. In 1924 he put on braces, learned to hobble on sticks. Masseurs and special exercises aided his improvement. He can now walk 100 ft. without aid, climb specially built undersized steps. He has to be helped...
Died. Albert Earl Clift, 61, president since 1929 of Central of Georgia Railway and Ocean Steamship Co., onetime (1924-29) vice president of Illinois Central Railroad; after an operation for stomach ulcer; in Savannah, Ga...
Honored. Martha McChesney Berry, founder of the Berry Schools for mountain children at Mount Berry, Ga., protégée of President Theodore Roosevelt; with the third annual medal of Manhattan's Town Hall Club for "an accomplishment of lasting merit."* Other nominees for the award: Author Newton Booth Tarkington. Producer Daniel Frohman, Playwright Marcus Cook Connelly, Banker George Foster Peabody...