Word: sanitariums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...variety of special European junkets (e.g., for gourmets, winebibbers, music lovers), a Los Angeles travel agency added a new item: the hypochondriac's tour. The eight-week swing through Europe will be shepherded by a staff internist from a California sanitarium. "Conversation regarding ailments and ill health will be taboo," announces the brochure. "While anyone feeling ill will request and promptly receive treatment, our physician leader will, except in private consultation, act as one of the party out to enjoy the sights." Cost for the trip, including first-class travel and physician...
...identity from a university catalogue, had in some mysterious way assembled all the necessary proofs and college transcripts to support the pretense. But he disappeared after a while, later, under a variety of names, taught psychology in a Pennsylvania college, served as an orderly in a Los Angeles sanitarium, as an instructor in Washington State's St. Martin's College. At length the FBI caught him, and he served 18 months in prison for desertion...
Died. Dr. Leo L. Spears, 62, highflying quack, head (since 1943) of Denver's glassy Spears Chiropractic Sanitarium; of a heart attack; in Denver. A lifelong anomaly in the medical profession, Dr. Spears was charged with manslaughter after a young (31) patient died six weeks after he opened his clinic, was acquitted, sued state health officials for $300,000, lost the case. He later sought damages for libel suits totaling some $36 million, never collected a nickel...
When one morning the sheets on his hospital bed were found covered with ink, the Russian explained that he had been drinking ink as an antidote for poison which he thought was being given him. President Lowell persuaded Saradjeff to return to Russia, where he eventually died in a sanitarium...
...Between shows, where she belted out old songs she had made famous, e.g., When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along, vibrant Songstress Roth philosophized about her old problem. Hearing a report that Actress Diana Barrymore (TIME, Jan. 23) had spent only five weeks in a sanitarium (where she had voluntarily consigned herself to be treated for alcoholism for a planned six months), Lillian said: "I'd keep my fingers crossed. If you've given a whole life to self-destruction, it's worth a half year listening to somebody about it-even...