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...Royce saw John Warner recently and reports that "Thomas is a quack--don't go to Thomas." All men with disappearing hair lines should consult Senor Royce before committing suicide--gulp...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 2/6/1945 | See Source »

...78th Congress flickered to a finish, lame-duck Congressmen seized their last chance. One by one, they took to the floor with prepared valedictories. Most of their colleagues had already gone home, but the Congressional Record was still there, duty-bound to print every last quack. Each swan-songster was convinced that his constituents had been misguided, but magnanimously agreed to abide by the voters' decision. Each also wanted to take a few fast, final pokes at the Soviet Union and the British Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Words | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...ever disputed the claim, which Henry Junius Schireson once made under oath, that he is "king of the quacks." He has practiced medicine for 40 years, the last ten in Philadelphia, without a degree. He has long been the untroubled butt of pained outcries by the Journal of the American Medical Association, of several legal charges and trials (for mayhem and dope peddling). He has been the subject of a movie (False Faces) in which a patient shoots a doctor after losing a suit for malpractice. Last month the Philadelphia Record began a series of articles on Quack Schireson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: King of Quacks | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...Identified by another Schireson patient as New York's Governor Dewey, who allegedly had his nose improved by Quack Schireson. Said Dewey through his secretary: "Never head of Schireson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: King of Quacks | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...with malaria and dengue fever. Still grey with sickness, he set up headquarters on Guadalcanal preparatory to the New Georgia invasion. "Terrible" Turner's bridge was a jungle clearing marked by a wooden sign: "U.S.S. Crocodile-Flagship- Amphibious Forces South Pacific." Under the scorching tropic sun, amidst the quack of bena birds and the coo of kura kura pigeons, dressed in khaki pants and shirt, he taught the new amphibious doctrine, which he was learning himself, to the officers under his heterogeneous command: air officers, marine colonels, brigadier generals, destroyer captains, PT commanders, crusty transport skippers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Year of Attack | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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