Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsworthy doctor who is currently in trouble with Organized Medicine as a result of clumsy press relations is Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass. Last winter an Omaha colleague sent Dr. Truesdale a 10-year-old patient named Alyce Jane McHenry who was suffering from diaphragmatic hernia. Before Dr. Truesdale could operate, the Press had taken possession of the McHenry case, front-paged the child as the "upsidedown stomach girl" (TIME, March 11). Anticipating that Massachusetts Medicine would promptly call him on the carpet and demand his explanation of all this publicity, Dr. Truesdale forehandedly asked...
Meanwhile Alyce Jane McHenry continued to ride high on a prospering wave of publicity. Her mother Luella McHenry, an Omaha department store clerk, no longer has to work. Her father Paul, a Sioux City, Iowa salesman, left his job to become reconciled with her mother. Her sister Frances Jean quit school to share in the glory and excitement...
Late in 1809 Dr. Ephraim McDowell, 38, of Danville, best surgeon west of Philadelphia, received a call to Greentown, 60 miles across country, to deliver a Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford. Dr. McDowell, a big, vigorous man, rode over to Greentown. Two attending physicians assured him that Mrs. Crawford carried twins. He made an examination per vaginam, soon ascertained that she was not pregnant but had a large tumor in the abdomen which moved easily from side to side...
...Died. Jane Addams, 74, pioneer social worker, lecturer, pacifist, reformer, founder 46 years ago of Chicago's Hull House, first and most famed settlement house in the U.S.; after an operation for abdominal adhesions and cancer; in Chicago. Theodore Roosevelt called her "America's most useful citizen." For her peace activities, which included organizing an international congress of women during the War and resisting U.S. entry into the War, she was awarded one-half the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, with Nicholas Murray Butler...
Inasmuch as Larry Funk and his Band of a Thousand Melodies is in Detroit, Willard Alexander will provide the syncopation for the Lowell House Dance on Friday. Alexander's Band has been playing at the Arcadia in Philadelphia; Jane Whitney will be the vocalist...