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Pochapin fortified himself with a selective jury, headed by veteran Artist John Sloan, assisted by Critic-Painter Walter Pach, Painter Howard Patterson, Academician Alphaeus Philemon Cole. Pochapin's jurymen share his crusading zeal...
...translated from the Latin in Philemon Holland's famous version...
Last week Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass., whom the Massachusetts Medical Society quizzed as a result of the publicity given him for his operation on Alice Jane ("Upside-down Stomach") McHenry (TIME, June 17, et ante), received this well-publicized vindication from the Society...
...newsworthy doctor who is currently in trouble with Organized Medicine as a result of clumsy press relations is Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass. Last winter an Omaha colleague sent Dr. Truesdale a 10-year-old patient named Alyce Jane McHenry who was suffering from diaphragmatic hernia. Before Dr. Truesdale could operate, the Press had taken possession of the McHenry case, front-paged the child as the "upsidedown stomach girl" (TIME, March 11). Anticipating that Massachusetts Medicine would promptly call him on the carpet and demand his explanation of all this publicity, Dr. Truesdale forehandedly asked...
Graduates like to boast that Boston Latin School "dandled Harvard College on its knees." Only five years younger than the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Latin School was founded in Philemon Pormort's kitchen to get the colonists' boys ready for Harvard, which opened a year later. Within a year Master Pormort fell into the heresies of Anne Hutchinson, had to be sternly sent away. In 1714 the school stood on what is now the lawn of Boston's City Hall and Benjamin Franklin was a pupil. In the years before the Revolution its Master was a Loyalist named...