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...publicity newspapers gave him. The press touted him as a miracle worker, a Messiah come to redeem the halt and the lame. Cameramen got him, always genial and accommodating, to pose in ridiculous circumstances. One picture showed him kinked over and looking solemnly at the twisted head of a boy whom he had cured. The doctor, in his overcoat and without his hat. looked exactly like a small-time ventriloquist with a dummy on his lap. Such blatancy, even though involuntary, was not ethical, and the U. S. profession damned...
...unconscious boy's head was twisted so that his right temple lay uppermost. Two quick, accurate, preplanned incisions. A thin-lined six-inch triangle showed faintly. This the surgeon peeled back and let the flap lie out of the way. Then into the skull bone with the saw. Slow, careful rasping. A six-inch triangle lay loose, like a piece of cracker on gelatin. With a blunt instrument Dr. Dandy separated this piece of bone from the underlying, attached dura mater. Into that tough membrane, into the arachnoid tissue, into the pia mater-carefully, very carefully. Some blood. The mass...
This week the boy was back in his Bronx home convalescing...
...land home was at Miramar, Calif., a 10,000-acre ranch, the natural rugged beauty of which he had been careful to preserve much as he preserved his own natural strength and powers from the debility that riches and refinement often breed. He had started life as a poor boy, an English book-binder's 13th child. He had gone to the public schools of Rushville, Ill., worked on the family farm, then gone, at 18, to be his half-brothers' office boy on the Detroit Tribune for $3 a week...
There was a strong journalistic tradition in the Scripps family. The boy's grandfather had published the London Literary Gazette. His great-uncle had published one of Illinois' first weekly newspapers. A cousin of his father's, John Locke Scripps, had founded the Chicago Tribune with Joseph Medill...