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Twelve miles from the finish, his feet began to blister. Eleven miles farther on, he was overcome by nausea, stopped twice to vomit. Neither of these mishaps last week seriously inconvenienced Runner John Adelbert Kelley, who regarded them as incidental to an afternoon of sport. The pain of the blisters caused him to hurry into first place. A few minutes after becoming violently sick, a little more than two and a half hours after he had started, he crossed the finish line in last week's Boston A. A. Marathon, winner by a quarter-mile. With feet much...
...heavyweight champion of the work can, by rights, beat anyone who will fight him without weapons. There were last week possibly half a dozen men in the world capable of beating Champion Primo Carnera but it seemed unlikely that Max Adelbert Baer was among them. An exuberant young pugilist who enjoys night life more than fighting, Baer had trained so nonchalantly that a member of the New York State Boxing Commission threatened to have the fight cancelled because the challenger was in such pooi physical condition. Even after a committee of physicians had examined Baer's 210-lb. hulk...
Last week to the New York Academy of Medicine, Dartmouth's Professor Adelbert Ames Jr. announced that his research department of physiological optics had found the ailment which may cause these disorders, had developed a means of correcting it. Though only about 1,000 cases had been observed, he estimated that 20% to 30% of all eye sufferers may be affected by a condition which he named aniseikonia. Said Professor Ames to the Manhattan doctors: "I feel that before aniseikonia was discovered we were somewhat in the position of the astronomers studying the solar system before all the important...
Professor Ames's father, who died last year at 97, was the last Yankee governor of Mississippi, the last surviving Union general of the Civil War. He was long the daily golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller at Ormond Beach, Fla. When Adelbert Ames Jr. set out to track down aniseikonia in 1927, it was John Davison Rockefeller Jr. who furnished the money. Last week the New York Herald Tribune reported the fact that Son Rockefeller himself has aniseikonia, that he has obtained considerable relief from his iseikonic spectacles...
...Bissell, Richard Adolph Bloomfield, Benjamin Cushing Bowker, Morton Clark Bradley, Jr., Leon Brooks, Winston Mansfield Burdett, Warren Leonard Claff, Samuel Louis Cohen, Louis Cooperstein, Samuel Duker, Maurice Francis English, John Lincoln Finan, Franklin Gay Folger, Oliver Garceau, Charles Clarke Glavin, Edwin Paul Gordon, Henry Greenberg, John Dickson Hersey, Winfield Adelbert Huppuch, Elliott Samuel Hurwaitt, James Francis Kane, Jr., Alfred Kidder, 2d, Harlan Michael Levin, James Marcellus Lichliter, Edmund Lieberman, Robert Baddow Lisle, John Hamilton McCallum, William Alexander McGivney...