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...Harry Merrill Murdock of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Md. declared that U.S. citizens suffer from "great nervous stress [from] . . . so many terrifying alarms." In Germany, he continued, "control of neurosis has been attained. . . . Everyone has something to do and it is plain to him that what he is doing is a definite stride toward the goal he desires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mad World | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...Conklin rubbed his chin, named her Mary. She is now Mrs. Samuel Masland, wife of a Towson, Md. electrical contractor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Lashed to a stretcher and screeching protests, eccentric Representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck was removed from Washington's Gallinger Municipal Hospital, taken to a private sanatorium at Towson, Md. for an indefinite stay. Let out in an exercise yard there, he sprinted to a 7½ ft. wire mesh fence, scaled it like a monkey, outran his astonished guards to freedom. Next day, after a Capitol charwoman found him sound asleep in his House office, authorities gave him his freedom on condition that he leave for his Seattle home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 6, 1936 | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...listens to John Charles Thomas when he sings over the radio knows him for the resonant "Good Night, Mother," with which he ends all his programs. On such occasions Baritone Thomas is addressing a homey, kindly-faced old lady who lives in the house he bought for her in Towson, Md., tends her garden, mows her own lawn, harks back constantly to the days when her John was a lad singing in the churches where his Methodist father preached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Night, Mother. | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...completed his year's contract with William R. Warner & Co. (Vince Mouthwash), is about to take a vacation. When he appeared on the Golden Rule Mother's Day program in Baltimore last Sunday there was no excuse for him to clash with FCC. Proud Dora Thomas from Towson was present while he sang. When queried about her son John's threat, she said: "I believe he means it. John is a Thomas and all we Thomases are pretty determined people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Night, Mother. | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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