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Died. Dr. Louis Ernst Schmidt, 88, famed urologist and longtime crusty critic of the American Medical Association; after long illness; in Wausau, Wis. A sharp-tongued crusader, Dr. Schmidt was a dedicated foe of the nice-Nelliness that long hampered treatment of venereal disease, set up the first genitourinary clinic west of the Alleghenies. When he accepted support from an organization that advertised publicly, he was charged by the A.M.A. with unethical conduct and was expelled (1930). He countered bitterly that organized medicine was against low-priced medical care, was backed by half a dozen other medical societies, eventually...
Died. Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb, 71, Wisconsin's famed North Woods woman doctor; of complications following surgery on a broken hip; in Wausau, Wis. Kansas-born Kate Newcomb had an ever-widening practice in a 70-mile circle around Woodruff, Wis. (pop. 550), where it was always hard sledding. Fame came to her after a "million pennies" drive to raise funds for a tiny community hospital and an appearance (1954) on TV's This Is Your Life; the TV audience ponied up $112,596, and roly-poly Kate became the subject of a sentimental biography, Doctor Kate: Angel...
Other officers are William J. Dean of Weld and New York, vice-chairman and treasurer; David H. Jackson of Matthews and Wausau, Wis., secretary; Fred R. Moseley III of Grays and Long Island, chairman of the dance committee; Robert W. McCarley of Hollis and Mayfield, Ky., chairman of the Union activities committee; Roger D. Peirce of Lionel and Milwaukee, chairman of the common room and food committee; and S. David Galloway of Weld and Memphis, Tenn., representative to the Crimson Key Society...
...practice. In 1936 he quit "to do something for society rather than just make money out of its difficulties," and went to St. Lawrence University's theological school. Dr. Gibbons' parish since 1942 has been a small one, the First Universalist Church at Wausau (pop. 30,414), Wis., but he has attracted plenty of attention with the vigorous anti-orthodoxy of his speeches around the country...
Kissing Kin. In Wausau, Wis., Farmer Walter Brandt got his marriage annulled after telling the judge he had discovered that the man who had been living in his house for the past six years was not his wife's "brother" but her first husband...