Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funeral chapel at Lankwitz's Park Cemetery in Berlin went in full uniform with all his medals General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. who was the Reichswehr's brilliant commander under Chancellor von Schleicher. Floral tributes rolled up by the truckload and Military Chaplain Schleigel was striding resolutely up to begin the service when he was nabbed by Secret Police...
...Manhattan last week Dr. Maurice Brodie, 30, assistant professor of bacteriology in New York University, was certain that he had a poliomyelitis vaccine which confers long-time immunity. Likewise did his chief. Dr. William Hallock Park, 72, whom New York City is retaining as director of the Department of Health's bureau of laboratories although he is beyond the retirement age. Likewise did Dr. Brodie's colleague Dr. Josephine Bicknell Neal, 54. and Dr. Henry Wirt Jackson, 48, and Technicians Judith Figarsky, 24, and Anne Goldberg...
...principle the vaccine should create antibodies in the blood of Dr. Park and friends. Their fortified blood should be able to destroy or neutralize living infantile paralysis virus. This means immunity...
...Press tried to make heroes of those who submitted to injections of the Brodie vaccine. Reporters flocked to the laboratories. Laughed old Dr. Park: "I had a good night's sleep and didn't even think about the injection. I got up this morning at 7:30 o'clock. Breakfast consisted of fruit, ham and eggs and coffee. I got to the office at 9:30 a. m. and began to work. I feel fine. Danger? Pooh, pooh! We won't know for a week or ten days what the reactions...
Finally in Manhattan, Lemuel does the Algerian thing by stopping a runaway horse in Central Park and saving a banker's lovely daughter. But all he gets out of that is the loss of an eye. He goes to jail again, is held prisoner in a bawdy house, goes West to dig gold, loses his leg in a bear trap, is attacked by Indians led by a Harvard-educated chief. Convincingly scalped, he makes a precarious living in a sideshow, acts as a clown in vaudeville, finally bows to a Communist-assassin's bullet, and becomes in death...