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...blood pressure figure, without explanation, has no more meaning than the count of the white cells in their blood stream, or the specific gravity of their urine. Nonetheless the numbers indicating specific gravity, blood count or blood pressure do fascinate many people, as a shrewd amusement park concessionaire named Barnet Males has discovered to his own profit...
Last week at Coney Island Barnet Males was in trouble with the law for pandering to the common interest in blood pressure. On the Boardwalk he set up a sphygmomanometer including a regular cuff and bulb. An overlarge dial was blatantly labeled "Blood Pressure Indicator for SYSTOLIC PRESSURE." For 10? passers-by were invited to "READ YOUR OWN BLOOD PRESSURE."* To protect himself from the serious charge of practicing medicine without a license, Concessionaire Males set up big signs reading: "Attendant is forbidden to diagnose, prescribe or treat under any circumstances. The only purpose of this (non-stethoscope) machine...
Winthrop Sargent Prize, of $150, for the best essay relating to Shakspere, to Melvin L. Barnet '36, of Yonkers...
Princeton, N.J., March 18--Captain Howland Stoddard was the solo Harvard wrestler to qualify in the first day of competition in the Eastern Intercollegiates here today, when he throw Barnet of Columbia with a half-nelson and body at 4.01, and then pinned Masher of Cornell in the semi-finals with a hammerlock and half-nelson...
Melvin Leslie Barnet...