Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Doris Hull, 24, seemed to be wasting away despite visits to home-town doctors in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, her husband took her to Spokane to see Otis G. Carroll, 79, a practitioner of 43 years' experience. Though Paul Hull, a construction worker, thought Carroll was an M.D., he is actually a licensed drugless-healer -a "sanipractor." At his first examination (fee, $50), Carroll took a drop of blood from Doris Hull's ear, put it in his "radionic" device, twirled some knobs, concluded that he got a vibration at a dial reading...
...this testimony in Paul Hull's suit against Carroll, a Spokane jury last week awarded him $35,823 for his wife's death, $2,000 because both he and their daughter, 2, contracted TB from...
...Easter story. Van Dyck chose to depict the high moment of treachery when Judas kisses Jesus, betraying his identity to the onrushing soldiers and servants of Jerusalem's chief priests and elders. For Van Dyck, who was Peter Paul Rubens' favorite pupil, such a scene of action-packed drama was an ideal subject. He gave it all of his young mastery of whirling shapes, lurid lighting and heightened emotion...
Money, Miracles. Author Graves admits to more and stronger literary quirks, prejudices, theological theories and odd bits and pieces of information than seem possible in one man. Samples: Milton's L'Allegro is not much of a poem-Robert Frost has written better; Saint Paul was dishonest with money; Jesus did not die on the Cross but may or may not have turned up in Rome in A.D. 49; bath water in Australia "goes widdershins [contrariwise] down the waste-pipe"; the "concept of the supernatural is a disease of religion," although, paradoxically, Graves-who claims to have risen...
Donnybrook Estates. In Alexandria, La., six house wreckers showed up at the home of Paul Davis, removed half the roof, most of the upper story and the front porch before Davis arrived and told them that they were tearing down the wrong house...