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...last week. But when Sister Mary Bertrand. Superioress of St. Joseph's Hospital, saw a newspicture of Mary Louise Peck as St. Joan, her vexation was great. She informed the Atlantic Beach Club that St. Joseph's Hospital would accept not one penny of the money thus raised. One Oakley Bidwell, the club's executive secretary, offered public apologies, insisted that what had offended Sister Mary Bertrand was nothing more than "a brief and dignified appearance on the stage of a young lady clad in the armor of the period." Sister Mary Bertrand declared that the Catholic Church is opposed...
...bones, bolstered up in a chair on a pair of thick Chicago telephone books, were all that was left of one J. M. McAdou of Florida, late patient of Oakley Smith, 53. founder of the Chicago College of Naprapathy. Patient McAdou died last year...
There was not a regular doctor in Chicago, in Illinois or in the U. S. last week who had anything but supreme contempt for the medical theories of "Dr." Oakley Smith and his 200 followers who helped him celebrate the 25th anniversary of Naprapathy. "Dr." Smith was a kind of chiropractor when he conceived these theories and invented the name "Naprapathy" from the Czech naprava ("correction") and the Greek pathos ("suffering"). Naprapaths claim that all disease is due to shrunken ligaments ("ligatights") pressing upon nerves. The naprapath tries to ease the pressure by manipulating the "ligatights," somewhat after the fashion...
With a strong wind sweeping the course and a 75 already posted which had withstood the attacks of the collegiate golf stars during most of the day, Ed Peterson, Freshman ace and Massachusetts Junior Golf Champion, blazed over the last five holes of the Oakley course in even par yesterday and won the New England intercollegiate Golf Championship with a 74. Wilfred Crossley '36 was the only other Crimson entrant to break 80 and scored a 78 to capture fifth place...
Approximately 100 men competed for the Frank E. Whitcher cup over the Oakley layout. Of the rest of the Harvard men competing, Mel Heath and Bob Hunter fared the best, each posting...