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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through Nebraska University's medical school, he graduated at 36, started practice in South Dakota's Black Hills where he often had to ride 150 mi. in a buggy to reach his patients. Like many a frost-bitten South Dakotan he moved, aged 52, to California. There, after a spell as assistant city health officer in Long Beach, he turned again to private practice. A kindly doctor, he brooded over his experience of human misery, and conceived a Plan...
...first program was chiefly remarkable for its experiment with new music. Much of its dialog was silly and few of its singers were Grade A. Particularly objectionable to first nighters was the "baby talk" of one girl performer (Loretta Clemens). Last week's best song: "Under Your Spell...
...thousands of armchair adventurers to whom the spell of the Arctic has been only a dream . . . this summer you can follow trails traveled before only by explorers. . . . Adventure, yet perfect safety...
...Forest Infirmary 3,983 aged, penniless inmates still wore their woollen shirts, long winter underwear, ate oatmeal and corned beef hash, and worked in the sun-baked fields. In five days 39 of them dropped dead. Missouri had over 400 deaths. And one day during the hot spell there was a brisk snowfall at Colorado Springs...
...closed eyes in a pew of little St. Mary's Church where, nearly half a century ago, he and a reedy-voiced youngster named John McCormack were altar boys together. He wandered in the ruins of the Clonmacnoise Abbey, just as he had wandered as a moppet, when the spell of the place impelled him to study for the priesthood. Now he was an Archbishop, second youngest in the U. S. It had been no easy job to suceed the late, great Cardinal Gibbons in the Baltimore Archdiocese and Archbishop Curley could not help sensing a difference in public attitude...