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Also a Cure for Recession. As administrator of the 160-bed Miners' Hospital in Spangler, Pa. (pop. 3,200), Booster Haluska castigated the hospital staff ("slaughterers") for not adopting the tonic. Then he staged a "Hoxsey Day," with a parade, baton-twirling high-school girls, and a speech by Hoxsey, up from Dallas for the occasion. Hoxsey won over miners and businessmen with talk of the wealth that a Hoxsey clinic would bring to Spangler and nearby Portage, both badly hit by the recession in the coal-mining industry. Later Haluska suggested that the Miners' Hospital...
...driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line on Cemetery Ridge. Lee's army followed, and during the next two days in fierce fighting at Little Round Top, the Devil's Den, the Wheat Field, Peach Orchard, Gulp's Hill, Spangler's Spring and other positions along the Union line, tried unsuccessfully to dislodge the Northerners. On the afternoon of July 3, Major General George E. Pickett led 15,000 Confederates on a gallant but ill-advised charge into the teeth of well-positioned Federal infantry and artillery. With Pickett...
Married. Robert Taylor (real name: Spangler Arlington Brugh), 42, cinemactor (Ivanhoe, Knights of the Round Table); and Ursula Thiess, 30, German-born cine-masiren (Monsoon); each for the second time; near Jackson...
...critic's "livid" might have been a slip 'twixt the pen and the press; nevertheless, his little bundle of skillfully modulated sesquipedalian (or is it sesqui-pedantic?) phrases is a stodgy example of journalism uninhibited by idiomatic terminology. Sydney H. Sohanberg '55 Robert A. Spangler...
...When Spangler's name was read to the convention, shouts of "No!" "No!" rose up from Eisenhower supporters. But they quieted down when they heard all the pro-Ike names, and the convention approved the slate. The Eisenhower forces had won a clear-cut victory in an important farm state. The final count: Ike 15, Taft 9, uncommitted...