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...attractive red-haired housewife named Elsie May Keene walked into the office of K. F. Reynard in Beaumont, Texas, told him a physician had said she was dying of diabetes. Reynard, one of Texas' 400 practicing naturopaths, knew just what to do for her. First he gave her repeated enemas. Next he administered the pendulum test-a piece of steel supported on chains between two rods which he held over Mrs. Keene's heart. "Your heart is beating too fast and the blood pressure is too high," he told her. His diagnosis continued: a large heart lesion which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Texas Quackdown | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...doctor probably would have told Reynard Langrish that what he needed was a long vacation. Besides his chronic catarrh, he was having trouble with his hearing, and his sense of smell wasn't as sharp as it should be. Even cigarettes had begun to taste bad. What was worse, his home in the provincial English town where he lived with his deaf mother was getting on his nerves. After a day at his dull bank clerk's job, his restlessness would become intolerable, driving him out for long, aimless walks. On the rainswept night that the strapping young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's It Ail About? | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...they scrabbled in their dictionaries for more stickers. Imprimatur, encomium, umbrage, charlatan and eident eliminated all but three. In Round 29, Jim Bernhard, 12, of Houston, Texas, who had plowed successfully through such words as effluviography, went down on haruspex (he ended it specs). Only plump, wavy-haired Diana Reynard, 12, of East Cleveland, Ohio, and pale, lanky Colquitt Dean, 14, of College Park, Ga., were left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gnarled with a K | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

CHARLES CASSIL REYNARD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1950 | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...make up the volume are echoes of a sturdier Masefield who can still spin a tale of a country prizefight, drop a tear for the rifled tomb of an old king and enjoy the sense of friendly ghosts in Hilcote Manor. They are only echoes of the Masefield of Reynard the Fox, Enslaved and Dauber, but if they are unlikely to win the poet new admirers, they will still serve to keep the old ones mindful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Ships & Wonder | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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