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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noble thoughts, snatches of homely humor, tributes to beauty, diligence, nature, perseverance, motherhood, home, etc. Some are from Edgar Albert Guest, Dr. Frank Crane, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Many, of unknown origin, are favorites of listeners who send them in. Here and there are a few lines from Shelley, Browning, Whitman, A. E. Housman. Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty?" 'R' You Listenin'? is a book of extracts from "Tony's Own Philosophy," sermonets which he sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Scrapbookman | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...Daniels, R. T. Fisher, L. A. Frothingham, Harry Gans, H. M. Goodwin, Pinckney Holbrook, D. G. Haskins, E. W. Hutchins, Charles Jackson, W. S. H. Lothrop, Angela Morris, J. M. Newell, T. N. Perkins, J. W. Platner, Calhoun Stanwood, J. J. Thomas, G. W. Valiant, E. A. Whitman, Alexander Whiteside, Phillip Wrenn, and F. H. Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE PATRONESSES FOR BEN GREET PLAYERS | 1/12/1932 | See Source »

...opinion of Dr. Armitage Whitman who succeeded his retired father at New York Hospital for the Ruptured & Crippled, few people know this. Their ignorance made him cry out to the New York Academy of Medicine: "Once they have an understanding of the nature of the disease, when it no longer seems the utterly mysterious thing that it does now, the people will no longer rush frantically from quack to quack, sacrificing the fortunes of the family to any one who promises a cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Infantile Paralysis | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...Said Dr. Whitman: "All these patients are entitled at least to a chance of relief. In favorable cases surgical treatment may entirely mask the effects of the disease. In worse cases it may enable the patient to discard apparatus. In the worst cases it can hold out the possibility of independent locomotion. . . . Only a very small number need expect to look, feel, or act like a cripple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Infantile Paralysis | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...Whitman flayed parents who tell children that the "doctor won't hurt." Said he: "Tell children the truth. The screaming terrified ones who are so hard to handle are those who have been assured that the doctor would not hurt them, and then have had their fracture reduced without an anesthetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Infantile Paralysis | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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