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...this week. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett was singing the role of murderous Count Guido who stabs to death his wife and her parents. As he pretended to kill old Pietro, he turned his knife aside in traditional opera style, accidentally slashed Basso Joseph Sterzini between the thumb and forefinger. Sterzini pooh-poohed his wound, wanted to finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied and sent for Joseph Siegel, the Metropolitan's doctor. Dr. Siegel found that an artery had been cut and sent Sterzini to the hospital. There, five hours later, Basso Joseph Sterzini...
Completed last week by the young New Orleans cotton house of Tullis, Craig & Co. was one of the smartest cotton market operations in many a moon. It was not a spectacular coup. Indeed Partner Garner H. Tullis tried to pooh-pooh accumulating gossip with a signed statement: "I wish to state in regard to the so-called operations of our firm in December that the entire story has been greatly exaggerated both in magnitude and effect...
...East Coast. Last week, undergraduate newspapers at Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale simultaneously printed identical editorials advocating that the "Ivy League" be made a reality with conference rules, schedule restrictions patterned on those of the Midwest's Big Ten. "Ivy League" athletic officials pooh-poohed the idea...
...greatest neurologists of the 19th Century. Jean Martin Charcot became professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Paris, started a neurological clinic at the old Salpetriere (public hospital for the aged and insane) which wielded a potent influence in medicine and psychiatry. Charcot pooh-poohed the antique physiological theories of hysteria, probed the psychological sources through hypnotism. He differentiated the manifestations of locomotor ataxia, published researches on many another malady from gout to chronic pneumonia, some of which bear his name. At the height of his fame a young physician named Sigmund Freud went to study with...
...pious votes through the Good Neighbor League of Dr. Stanley High, who issued 60,000 copies of The Social Ideals of the Churches and the Social Program of the Government (TIME, June 1). The Rev. Dr. Walter Wofford Tucker Duncan of Cleveland's Lakewood Methodist Episcopal Church, promptly pooh-poohed Dr. High as a New Deal hireling. Church Management, pastors' trade journal, criticized the Good Neighbor League for its silence regarding the New Deal's liquor, disarmament and college military training policies. The League moved its headquarters from Washington to Manhattan, where it began publicizing its activities...