Word: parkinsonism
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Boston University finished with 55 and Tufts brought up the rear with 48. Individually, Sam Parkinson in the B division and Ralph Evans in the C group, both of M. I. T., were outstanding, each winning four races...
...Cook, 52 and suffering from Parkinson's disease, a form of paralysis which has crippled his left hand, retired from the stage after 35 years of chatty clowning, juggling, prestidigitation, acrobatics. Born Joseph Lopez, orphaned son of a Spanish father, Irish mother, at 17 the kewpie-faced "one-man vaudeville show" announced his arrival on Broadway in a full-page ad in Variety; last week he said farewell the same...
During the 14-year administration of handsome, pince-nezzed President Charles Ezra Beury (pronounced Berry), a former lawyer-banker, Temple has labored mightily to become a dignified grove of learning. In this endeavor, President Beury has had the pushing assistance of Dr. William N. Parkinson, dean of the university's school of medicine, and the collaboration of a collection of 36 extraordinary trustees. Last week the board of trustees blew up with a loud, unscholarly report...
...John Archibald MacCallum, a liberal Presbyterian pastor and oldtime friend of Founder Conwell. Soon ex-Trustee MacCallum began to make charges. For no obvious reason, eminent Surgeon W. Wayne Babcock of the medical school jumped into the fray with countercharges. Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business, banking and politics. Like other ventures in which Businessman-Politico Greenfield is involved, the Temple din took on the vague outlines of a real-estate war. On one side were Budd, Trigg, MacCallum and Greenfield, on the other, Babcock, Parkinson...
...That Dr. Parkinson was Temple's real boss, had tried to have Dr. Beury ousted and grab...