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...Spring Valley, N.Y., ex-Convict George Poper was arrested after winning $165 for his hard-luck story on TV's Strike It Rich. When a kinescope of the show was telecast in Austin, Texas, Poper was recognized as a fugitive from an indictment for embezzlement and theft...
McCulloch signed on as a TIME stringer in 1951. One of his memories of those days is a hard-luck story with a happy ending. He had suggested that TIME do a story on Reno's famed Harold's Club as a successful business enterprise. The editors thought it was a good idea, told him to go ahead. When his research was almost completed, McCulloch was taken to the hospital for a midnight emergency appendectomy. By coincidence, TIME'S San Francisco Bureau Chief Al Wright arrived in Reno the next day, learned that McCulloch was temporarily...
Three of the five HOC members ventured into the cold, rough waters of stormy southern New England during the Spring vacation. But they got an unexpected and unseasonal swimming lesson when their hard-luck canoe labeled the "Wreck of the Housatonic" yielded the three, John M. Hey '56, Pauly T. to the rapids and smashed against a rock. The three, John M. Hey '56 Paul T. McElroy '53, and Benjamin L. Moltman '55, swam to safety girdled by life preservers...
Hypnosis has been a hard-luck kid among medical techniques. A century ago, it was just beginning to win acceptance as a painkiller when ether anesthesia was discovered and hypnosis was discarded. It was making a comeback 60 years ago when Freud hit upon the idea of psychoanalysis, and the experts again lost interest in hypnosis. Now, the third time around, it is once more winning the support of reputable men in both the physical and psychic areas of medicine. To help put hypnosis over the top for good, eleven doctors have assembled the first comprehensive textbook in the field...
Veranda Consultations. Doc Reser lives frugally on his retired sailor's pension, and is known as a soft touch for almost any countryman who passes his door with a hard-luck story. He drops in at Sonny Griswold's American Bar in Port-au-Prince' occasionally for a rum-and-drum session with visiting U.S. bluejackets. He paints and sketches reads and talks with tourists and others who come to him for voodoo information.-Oldtimers have estimated that Doc has 10,000 Haitian friends. When asked if he ever thinks of going back to Utah, he says...