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...last summer. Outstanding in a large number of gifts of sculpture were a monumental Japanese figure of the 15th century donated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, of Washington, a 13th century Gothic tomb figure in wood from Spain, donated as a memorial to the late Professor A. Kingsley Porter, and a bronze statuette of a champion stallion from Herbert Haseltine, the sculptor...
...years ago, upon taking office as England's Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, a lawyer with a rich practice among health and life insurance companies, appealed to England's doctors for an effective treatment for the common cold...
...young man neglected to exploit the treatment for several years. First he tried his hand at insurance and stock brokering, grew baldish and portly during his efforts, dropped them to promote the Duke-Fingard Treatment in California, China and England, where he heard the plea of Health Minister Sir Kingsley Wood...
...Kingsley would have nothing to do with much-traveled, somewhat evasive Mr. Fingard. That clever man rented a suite of rooms in a fine West End hotel where he let friendly doctors administer treatments for as high as ?1,000 a series. As for himself, he served U. S. coffee, Scotch whiskey and English gin to all comers. Occasionally he hinted that his opposition stemmed from Lord Dawson of Penn, hinted that that eminent physician wanted a cut in this profitable medical business...
...Director- General of the British Red Cross, one-time Director-General of the Army Medical Services. These and others just as influential got King George V's ear, got him to order the Duke-Fingard Treatment investigated officially. Whatever its merits or demerits, now decided Health Minister Sir Kingsley Wood's men, the Treatment did not require Mr. Fingard's presence in England...