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Stern is the surveillance of her tender audience, which permits her to take no liberties with favorite stories. Only human, it likes plenty of gore along with its fantasy. Miss Mack keeps in constant touch with her fans, being a specialist at deciphering childish handwriting. Best letter she's received to date: "Will you please send me a free fairy...
...Ranchman Gill's horse threw him. Three months later, in Washington, D. C., Richard Gill was flat on his back and rigid with spastic (muscle-contracting) paralysis. He remained on his back for four years. Doctors had no drug to combat his condition. One "eminent specialist" said that curare (pronounced koo-rah-reh), which contains a muscle-relaxing principle, might help. But U. S. doctors had never been able to get enough pure curare to experiment with its properties...
Howard Calvin Sykes, depression president of the New York Curb Exchange, a specialist on mica...
Samuel Hood Dolbear, globe-trotting mining engineer. His job: chromium specialist...
...show (see below). It also elected a new president (term: one year). Surgeon Frank Howard Lahey, "the Mayo of Boston," is famed for his scientific achievements. In 1922, Dr. Lahey started a small clinic on Commonwealth Avenue, with Drs. Lincoln Fleetford Sise and Sara Murray Jordan, outstanding woman gastroenterologist (specialist in intestinal disorders) in the U. S. Dr. Lahey specialized in clipping thyroids. So dexterous was his technique that within 17 years he and his associates had performed over 15,000 operations, lost only 100 patients...