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...summers of 1934 and 1935, more than 300 women nurses in Los Angeles County Hospital fell ill with a mysterious, hideously painful disease.* A few more became ill in 1936 and 1937. The disease was first diagnosed as poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). It was not. The Los Angeles press howled. Doctors were accused of incompetence, hospital officials of carelessness. Grand juries investigated. The county shouldered the bill for the care of the victims, which has now reached about $1,000,000. One newspaper charged that there was nothing really the matter with the patients except "weak muscles...
...Debs, arrested (1894) on a charge of conspiracy in organizing an American Railway Union strike-acquitted; 2) William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood and colleagues, accused of plotting assassination (1905) of Idaho's Governor Steunenburg - acquitted; 3) Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, charged (1911) with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times Building- imprisoned; 4) Nathan F. Leopold Jr. and Richard A. Loeb, for murder (1924) of 13-year-old Bobby Franks-life imprisonment rather than gallows on lunacy plea; 5) John Scopes, violation (1925) of Tennessee's anti-evolution statute-fined $100, after Darrow had quizzed William Jennings...
...years ago, Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn imported pretty Sigrid Gurie from Norway, secluded her in a Hollywood Hills bungalow till she learned English, then put her in The Adventures of Marco Polo. Last week, Miss Gurie and her husband, a small businessman named Thomas Stewart, were in the Los Angeles divorce court, and a few perfunctory questions brought out that she was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. Said Mr. Goldwyn: "The greatest hoax in box-office history ... I am a very happy victim...
Last week in Los Angeles' fancy Hotel Biltmore Bowl, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences bestowed upon the following cinema figures, for the following 1937 achievements, six-inch gilt figurines, strongly resembling radiator-cap sculpture and disparagingly referred to as "Oscars...
Unprecedented in the ten years of Academy prize-giving was Actress Rainer's second successive Oscar in a three-year film career. She won last year's for her portrayal of Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld. Sandy, rough-cut Actor Spencer Tracy, recovering in a Los Angeles hospital from a hernia operation, wept when told he had won. Last year's Oscar to Actor Paul Muni (Louis Pasteur) disappointed many who thought Actor Tracy deserved it for a row of consistently fine jobs (among them: Father Tim in San Francisco, Joe Wilson in Fury). When this...