Word: ranson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SODOM BY THE SEA-Oliver Pilat and Jo Ranson-Doubleday, Doran...
...Sodom by the Sea, Newsmen Pilat and Ranson narrate with raffish gusto what they call "an affectionate history" of the "island" (which by filling in its dividing ditch has long since been firmly attached to the mainland). They tell all: the evolution of the amusement parks, side shows, steeplechases, sly games to trap sucker money; the fortunes made and lost by Coney financiers ; the fires that periodically gutted the wooden jungles, during one of which lions ran in the streets with manes on fire; a female exhibitionist who smoked cigars "in a peculiar manner"; a sailor who took his girl...
...Walter Ranson, professor of Neurology and director of the Neurological Research Institute at Northwestern University since 1928, has been appointed Edward K. Dunham Lecture at the Medical School for the current academic year, the University announced today...
...Ranson is the author of "The Anatomy of the Nervous System," and of many papers in the field; and is a member of the editorial board of the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry...
...20th annual convention of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. For two days they did nothing but discuss, in the light of latest research, the orchestral effects of the hypothalamus, and pay tribute to the pioneer work of Chicago Neurologist Stephen Walter Ranson, who presented his first outstanding paper in 1904, is still continuing his explorations...