Word: schireson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rotary Reconstructed. To get a line on Schireson, the Record sent a patient to consult him about making her neck prettier. She found a "heavyset man, sixtyish in appearance, dressed in youthful tweeds. His ready smile revealed excellent bridge-work." He said that a neck treatment would merely give her "a perfect neck, a throat of vibrant youth, topped by an aged face." She should have "a complete rotary reconstruction" to make her face as beautiful as her eyes. "Your eyes alone," said Schireson, "would be the dream of any plastic surgeon...
Three days after the consultation, Schireson suggested "five corrections" at $250 each. The lady asked time to talk it over with her husband. Instead, she talked it over with the Record...
...Record articles brought action. Philadelphia police arrested Schireson. The charge: obtaining money under false pretenses. Schireson surrendered with dignity. After the officers had hunted him for seven hours, he arrived at a street-corner rendezvous in a limousine...
...Though Schireson has no medical degree, he has received licenses to practice from twelve state boards to which he misrepresented himself as a graduate of various colleges and medical schools...
...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...