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Visiting Fireman. In Middleton, England, a psychiatrist advised a father-concerned because he had caught his twelve-year-old son smoking in bed-to put an ashtray on the boy's bedside table...
...Montana M.D.'s attitude is no worse than that of the Middleton, Wis. (near Madison) M.D. who, some years ago, verbally told me to "go to hell" when I asked him to our house to treat a badly burned little girl. His ethical reasoning was as follows: "You had Patty delivered in Madison, and if you want anything done for her, why don't you take her there...
...parboiled, and impaled upon a pole on London Bridge for several months for all to see; the Inns of Court, in which were trained not only centuries of English jurists but also six signers of the Declaration of Independence-Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, Thomas M'Kean and William Paca; and finally the sweeping green of Runnymede Meadow, 20 miles west of London, where the embattled barons prevailed upon King John to sign Magna Carta in 1215 ("To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay, right or justice...
...There is nothing worse," contended Ohio's James Middleton Cox, "than an invertebrate publisher." Stocky, round-faced Jim Cox was one of the higher vertebrates in a generation of publishers that included such well-spined warriors as William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and Colonel Robert McCormick. As a journalist, he practiced his preachment that newspapers "should tell the truth as only intellectual honesty can discern the truth." As a politician, Democrat Cox was also notable for intellectual honesty. And he almost achieved the classic American cycle: born on a log-cabin farm, he got to be a Congressman...
Died. James Middleton Cox, 87, longtime newspaper publisher (Dayton Daily News, Miami Daily News, Atlanta Constitution, etc.), governor of Ohio (1913-15, 1917-21), and, with Franklin D. Roosevelt as running mate, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President in 1920; in Dayton (see PRESS...