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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Director of Publicity Alfred Henry Kirchhofer, aloof, lantern-jawed managing editor and onetime Washington correspondent of the Buffalo (N. Y.) evening News, was turning out press releases by the thousand, buttons, sunflowers and windshield stickers by the million. Working boss of Hoover publicity in the 1928 campaign, Press-agent Kirchhofer announced when appointed to his current post: "The usual hokum won't go in this campaign...
...Castle Heights Military Academy at Lebanon, Tenn. (tuition $650), spend the winter at Host Macfadden's New Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, and so debilitate himself in that winter sporting capital as to require a season at "Physcultopathist" Macfadden's Physical Culture Hotel at Dansville, N. Y. (rates $33.50 to $80 per week, with extras). There he might choose a Macfadden diet-&-exercise cure which is supposed to correct 150 human miseries, including acidosis, alcoholism, apoplexy, gout, impotence, lowered vitality, masturbation, ptomaine poisoning, sleepwalking, sterility and writer's cramp. Patrons showing up in "trances" are warned that...
Bubble Massage. The main curative agent in natural springs is the carbon dioxide which bubbles through the waters, said Dr. Franz Maximilian Groedel, one-time director of the Kerckhoff Institute, Bad Nauheim, Germany, now adviser to the vast bathing establishment at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. (TIME, Aug. 5, 1935). The gas bubbles, he explained, burst against the skin, massaging certain nerves. The stimulated nerves dilate blood vessels. Some of the gas is absorbed into the tissues and acts on the superficial capillaries causing them to fill. The skin reddens and the increased flow of blood benefits because it relieves...
Died. Edwin Ross Thomas, 85, pioneer automobile builder whose "Thomas Flyer'' won the 1908 New York-Paris race (via Siberia) in 170 days; in Buffalo. N. Y...
...Team "Y": ends, Donald L. Daughters '39 and Herbert Smith '38; tackles, Alexander Kevorkian, Jr. '38 and Kenneth L. Booth '39; guards, Joseph F. Nee '38 and George T. Klein '33; center, Henry E. Russell '39; backs, George G. Hedblom '37, Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, Robert Stuart '38, and William J. Watt...