Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long, skinny necks and scrawny chests have long been noted as physical characteristics of epileptics. Many epileptics also have small hearts and underdeveloped blood vessels. But until Drs. Temple Sedgwick Fay and Michael Scott of Philadelphia's Temple University began to study these "grotesque deviations" no physician had ever thought of correlating epileptic convulsions with general physical development. Last week, at the Chicago meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Drs. Fay and Scott reported a brilliant contribution to the baffling problem of epilepsy...
Also published this week was the most challenging analysis of accounting in many a day-Truth in Accounting* by C.P.A. Kenneth MacNeal, treasurer of Alden Park Corp., Philadelphia real-estate concern. His thesis: "The great majority of contemporary certified financial statements must necessarily be untrue and misleading due to the unsound principles upon which modern accounting methods are based." Some of his examples: A man invests $30,000 in 1,000 shares of General Motors at 30. The stock rises, he sells it at 60, and reinvests in 1,000 shares of International Harvester at 60. His twin puts...
...shared from childhood the artistic interests of his mother ("one of the most extraordinary persons I've ever met"). At Dartmouth, besides playing two years on the soccer team, he edited a magazine called The Five Arts. In 1930, he married hearty, charming Mary Todhunter Clark of Philadelphia, took her honeymooning around the world and settled in a big remodeled farmhouse near the golf course at Pocantico Hills. Since then they have had five children: Rodman, Ann, Steven and the twins, Michael and Mary, born last year...
Pittsburgh 4, New York 1; Cincinnati 7, Brooklyn 2; St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 2; Chicago 4, Boston...
Chicago 3, Washington 2, (10 innings); New York 12, Cleveland 6; Boston 8, Detroit 3; Philadelphia 12, St. Louis...