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Next day one of the Culver staff saw a news story about a "hospital bum" who could bring up blood at will. The story was based on an article in the A.M.A. Journal by Iowa City's Dr. John S. Chapman describing a galloping case of the "Munchausen syndrome"* (TIME, March 5, 1951) and warning hospitals against this itinerant who, strangely, always used the same name. Hospital Superintendent Ralph Haas phoned Iowa City to ask Dr. Chapman the man's name. "Leo Lamphere," was the reply. Soon, into Lamphere's room marched two deputy sheriffs with...
Lamphere claimed to have been a professional wrestler billed as "the Indiana Cyclone," also a ship's carpenter and bosun's mate. He told Munchausen stories about having had his appendix removed aboard a tugboat in Ireland, of exploratory kidney surgery in Japan. A crosshatch of surgical scars showed how often he had been under the knife. Disarmingly...
...resident of New York. But last week Lamphere agreed in court to undergo psychiatric examination, was shipped off to the state hospital at Westville, Ind. Psychiatrists hope to keep Lamphere in the maximum-security institution long enough to learn what can be done for a medical Munchausen...
Biographer Marberry wastes no time shoring up this literary rubble. Instead, he focuses on the flamboyant poseur who fashioned it, a man with the instincts of Barnum, the imagination of Munchausen, and the verbal aplomb of W. C. Fields...
Dominated by "guilt, fear, and loneliness"-already, in short, exhibiting the characteristic ailments of his era-Arthur at the age of ten discovered all by himself the characteristic cure of his generation. He decided, after reading the story in which Baron Munchausen yanks himself out of the mire by the hair of his own head, that he could save his own soul in the same...