Word: stammerers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professorial-looking Bigart, who talks with a slight stammer, joined the Herald Tribune in 1929 as an office boy, in 1933 began writing church news, finally worked up to fires and murders. In early 1943, when papers began converting young police reporters into war correspondents, Bigart was sent to England...
...will follow you with stammered thanks from aeon to aeon until, irked by having no peace even in the hereafter, you will consign me to Hell! Then you will no longer hear me, but I can assure you that I will continue to stammer my thanks even there. Until that moving catastrophe will have occurred, I will once more presume on your kindness. . . . Your servant, eternally devoted to you with heart and blood...
...smeared the paste on her face every three hours for several months. After a while the tumor disappeared. Although he was surprised at the results, Dr. Stammer never published any articles on the strange case, never claimed that he had a cancer cure. But the story got around to the New York State Board of Regents. They revoked his license for one year. Under State law, a doctor may not undertake "to cure or treat a disease by a secret medicine." Dr. Stammer's salve was classified as "secret" because he had not analyzed...
During the time Dr. Stammer was not allowed to practice he lost many of his patients. The salve that apparently cured the patient had ruined the doctor...
...Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court gave him back his license again a month before his year was up. But last week the Regents filed notice of intention to appeal to a higher court. Dr. Stammer's salve, said the Regents' consulting scientists, was known to be entirely ineffectual (if it really contained the ingredients he thought it did). The cure, they claimed, was either: 1) a delayed reaction from the patient's early X-ray and radium treatments, or 2) a spontaneous regression...