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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thousands of seekers after health follow the syndicated writings of high-spirited, publicity-wise Dr. Logan Clendening (Modern Methods of Treatment, The Human Body, The Care & Feeding of Adults). Few of his readers know that Dr. Clendening lives in a residential section of Kansas City, Mo. (near Boss Tom Pendergast) and that ever since last October he has been subjected to a severe strain. Last week Dr. Clendening cracked under the strain, committed a savage infraction...
...takes at least seven years to make a doctor-two years of premedical courses (many medical schools demand four), four years in a medical school, one to three years of interning. Thus most physicians do not open offices until they are almost 30, and many of them know little but medicine, understand nothing of the relation of their science to society, find no relaxation in art, music and literature...
...souls of Atmore, Ala., and five of their colleagues in cotton-growing Escambia County printed an advertisement in the Atmore Advance warning Escambia County's prospective mothers that henceforth they would demand cash on delivery. The ad: "We wish to take this means of letting the public know that ... all obstetrical (labor) cases will be done on a strictly cash basis...
Greyhound Lines and one T. R. McCabe, manager of the Cleveland branch of Beaumont & Hohman, advertising agency which has the Greyhound account, thought the implication more sinister. Mr. McCabe brooded for a spell, then last week wrote the Tribune an angry letter demanding "to know immediately if the cartoonist has been approached by representatives of somebody interested in injuring the bus business. . . . Needless to say . . ." said Mr. McCabe with needless indirection, "it may be quite difficult for us to persuade [our clients] that any further advertising should be placed." To Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Free dom of the Press") McCormick...
...lifelong bachelor, Gibbs was a quiet, modest man. At Yale, where he did his major work, most of the students not only did not know he was a great man ; they did not even know he existed. His colleagues admired him but found his recondite researches hard to understand. Like Albert Einstein, Josiah Willard Gibbs was not an experimenter but a thinker...