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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colossal fortune and started his son Rufus where he left off. Thereupon, having got religion and put his rather flushed past as far as possible behind him, he was devoting his senility to the satisfying contemplation of the works he had wrought and to feeding the squirrels in Central Park...
...This is a volume of short stories told with a complete command of detail. The best is called A Cycle of Manhattan. It tells how and by what gradual stages the Rosenheimers became the A. Lincoln Rosses, migrating from rooms over a Macdougal Street stable to Riverside Drive, Park Avenue, the East Sixties, and finally back again to the Macdougal Street rooms...
...Simon Flexner, of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. William H. Park, director of the New York City Health Department Laboratory, Dr. Walter Niles, dean of Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Mathias Nicoll, Jr., Deputy State Health Commissioner, and other scientific men declared in favor of continued experimentation. " The origin of these bills," Dr. Flexner declared, " is based on ignorance. If enacted into law they would strike at the roots of development in medical science...
Another move toward faith-healing is taken by formal action of the Episcopal Church. The Medical Committee appointed at Portland last September was headed by Dr. Edward S. Cowles, director of the Park Avenue "body and soul" hospital. Announcement is now made that the " National Association for the Advancement of Scientific Healing," has been formed with Dr. Cowles at the head. Its motto is mens sana in corpore sano. Officers are William G. McAdoo, George Gordon Battle, Samuel Untermyer, Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Rev. J. Howard Melish. Thomas A. Price is Secretary and Edward H. Coy (captain and fullback...
...Meanest Man in the World, remarked Colonel Bygad, is the one sitting next you in the subway who buys a paper at Park Street Under and carries it, tightly folded, all the way to Harvard, for fear of your reading it over his shoulder...