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...Foreign News section of TIME, under the heading Spain (Aug. 13), was printed an unconfirmed newspaper report (carried by The New York World and other journals) that Don Jaime, second son of Alfonso of Spain, was cured of congenital deafness by Dr. Curtis H. Muncie, Brooklyn osteopath. Corrections are in order from varied sources...
...Curtis H. Muncie, Brooklyn osteopath, was summoned by King Alfonso to treat the Prince (TIME, July 2). Don Jaime was so deaf that he could hear only shouted conversation. Dr. Muncie put him under an anaesthetic, reconstructed the eustachian tube with his forefinger.. Twenty minutes later, Don Jaime was able to hear normally...
...final game at the Polo Grounds-Yale 5, Princeton 1-gave "Mo" Berg, Tiger shortstop, difficult opportunities to which he rose so satisfactorily that Brooklyn National League scouts in the stands promptly offered him a Major League contract. Berg played his first game with Brooklyn last week, making one hit (a scratch, through the pitcher's box) and fielding perfectly...
...having gone to War, he was doing guard duty on Brooklyn Bridge. In 1919, he was returning from patrol service, a naval lieutenant, second in command of the U-117, noted for bravery...
...Post - and yet they are neither Babbitts, beautiful, damned nor Gopher Prairie yokels. They are merely what the average American boy between ten and sixteen would like to be, and they do the things which that boy would like to do. The wandering Patagonian musing on the ruins of Brooklyn Bridge in the year 3,000 could reconstruct every external of our present life and civilization from this series of books, as well as most of our ideals. He would think our normal life a little more exciting than it is, but that...