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Died. Major General Daniel Appleton, 77. of North Andover, Mass., retired publisher (D. Appleton & Co. of Manhattan was founded by his grandfather Daniel Appleton in 1825); at a sanatorium in White Plains, N. Y., where he had been ill for four years...
...etheric oils which would cure internal cancer in three to six months; cutaneous cancer in a matter of weeks. The doctors were impressed. They invited Polsjchak to work at the hospital. So satisfactory were his results that a group of doctors applied for a license to establish a sanatorium for him. The Jugoslavian authorities refused the license; forbade his activities. Such was the report from Vienna last week...
...Author is 44 years old, the son of an English vicar, the brother of John Cowper Powys, author and lecturer and T. F. Powys, novel-writer, a graduate of Cambridge. In 1909, afflicted with tuberculosis, he went to a Swiss sanatorium, an experience about which he later wrote a book. In 1914, still diseased, he went to South Africa for five years: this visit supplied the material for Ebony & Ivory, Black Laughter. In 1920, he came to the U. S. without fame, wealth or a wife; in 1925, he left the U. S. with all three and lived in England...
...spreading God's word. This fact especially is satisfying to Chairman Mott, a man whose energetic character resembles some laboratory apparatus of light and sensitive leaves, trembling with the great force an exterior electricity has communicated to them. On the night of the first gathering, in the German Sanatorium on the Mount of Olives, Dr. Mott looked about him with joy that burned in his eyes like fire. The game of going to Jerusalem was over now, and there was great work to be done. What this work was, he proceeded briefly to explain...
...takes Mann many pages to describe the three weeks stay. During that time an immense change comes over Hans Pastoy, a change that is gradual, from within, organic. He falls into the life of the sanatorium. He notices that in this place of absolute relaxation the hours are empty and become as nothing, and that the patients begin to think in terms of days, then weeks, finally, months, and years. Also there is a gradual corporalization of the individual: he begins to think of nothing but his bodily state, his temperature, his meals, his senses. Up here love...