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Married. George McGill, U. S. Senator from Kansas; and a Mrs. Virginia Parker of Oklahoma City; in Wichita, Kan...
Long has Dr. Brinkley been a thorn in the side of the A. M. A. More recently he gave Kansas politicians the scare of their lives. Soon after the War he ap peared in the crossroads village of Milford, Kan. and set himself up as a phy sician after obtaining a license by reciprocity from Arkansas. (His Arkansas license had been granted on the strength of a diploma from the Kansas City Eclectic Medical University, since exposed as a "diploma mill.") Dr. Brinkley built a radio station. KFKB, broadcast jazz music interrupted by lectures on rejuvenation. Soon he had transformed...
...James A, Naismith, 69, director of physical education at University of Kansas since 1898, originator of the game of basketball 40 years ago, slipped & fell in the bathtub in his Lawrence, Kan. home and broke two ribs. He was a teacher in the Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield, Mass. when he originated basketball, first played by teams of seven players with a soccer football and ordinary conical peachbaskets. The idea of the game spread faster than the rules, and each section of the U. S. played its own brand until the game was standardized...
...would not serve against the French because France had been his adopted home.) The dashing Baron came to the U. S. in 1910 as a pilot of the French entry in the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. He met Frances Scoville, daughter of a Seneca, Kan. banker, married her three years later in London. She died in 1920 leaving a daughter, Mary, who is now 17, in school at Aiken, S. C. By returning to Germany at the outbreak of the War Baron von Mumm sacrificed his prosperous wine business. Afterward he could salvage little of his fortune, lost what...
...Howard, Kan., Tom Thompson, 50 years editor of the Howard Courant, was given a golden jubilee party by Kansas editors. Inspirer of the celebration was Editor Fred Flory of the Howard Citizen. The Courant is the Citizen's rival, but they share one office. For mutual economy Editor Flory prints the Courant on the Citizen press. One window of the office bears the Citizen's name, the other the Courant...