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...Milwaukee pathologist, gathered in the offices of Dr. Orlando Scott to examine the mummified remains of one John St. Helen. They thumped it, felt it. x-rayed it. Then they gravely nodded their heads and all but announced that the mummy was none other than that of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Lincoln...
...Jane Addams, 71, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, following an operation for an ovarian cyst; President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, in Mexico City, with a high fever; Harold Gatty, 'round-the-world flyer, in Atlanta, of influenza; General Ballington Booth, 72, founder of Volunteers of America, son of the late Founder William Booth of Salvation Army, in Manhattan, following an operation for a kidney disorder...
...Haven Hospital contained Yale's Captain Albert J. ("Albie'') Booth Jr. for a week. He had taken cold after the Harvard game which his dropkick won for Yale (TIME, Nov. 30). The cold changed to bronchitis, the bronchitis to ''pleurisy with effusions." All pleurisies are grave matters. They very often indicate a latent or incipient tuberculosis. Footballer Booth at the end of last week was taken to Gaylord Farm Sanatorium, a tuberculosis rest cure operated at Wallingford, Conn, by Dr. David Russell Lyman, lung specialist...
There Footballer Booth was swathed under warm blankets, exposed to cold, clean, healing air. He must remain completely idle for at least four months-no work, no study, no excitement, very few visitors. He was to captain Yale's basketball team this winter, to play on the varsity baseball team next spring. He was scheduled for graduation next June, must now wait until at least February 1933. In June he and Marion Noble were to marry. The marriage will in all probability be postponed. Miss Noble and his mother visited him at the sanatorium last week end. His greeting...
...Albie" Booth, 25, stands 5 ft. 6 in.; weighs 145 lb. For ten years he has played strenuous academic sports. At Yale for four years his labors began with mid-September football practice. As soon as the football seasons ended, and with only a few days respite, he went in for basketball. Baseball began when basketball ended. While baseball practice proceeded, spring football practice began. Meanwhile he was attending classes, studying and socializing. No one restrained him. and he developed what Sports Writer Robert Harron of the New York Evening Post called "versatility...