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Early this week, when sleeping sickness had stricken 137, killed 18 St. Louisans, Kansas City, Mo. reported three sick, one dead of the disease. Individual cases, though they may last five years, usually last only three weeks. Some of St. Louis' sufferers had already recovered, tragically. Sleeping sickness ordinarily kills about one fifth of its victims. Those spared it nearly always leaves with paralyzed bodies, twisted characters or weakened minds...
...Unconscious (i. e. forgotten). Relief is obtained when the sufferer, by recalling that experience, brings his 'ailment out of the shadows into the light of consciousness. A classic case is that described by the late Dr. W. H. H. Rivers, who succeeded in curing a young man stricken with claustrophobia in World War trenches by getting him to recall a childhood terror connected with a long passageway and a dog. Psychiatrists (including psychoanalysts) commonly supplement- recall with their science's standard instruments: suggestion, persuasion, analysis, rationalization. Claustrophobes who have tried to reason with their unreasoning fears, will appreciate...
...began to undress, suddenly cried out. Thus, as it must to all men, Death came-before his wife could reach his side -to the second son of famed Jason (Jay) Gould. Day later an announcement was inserted in the Manhattan Press: "With those 'forces for good' grief stricken at the death of Edwin Gould stands the Harlem Eye & Ear Hospital, thanking God for the life of this patron saint of children. ... In memory of such a man all must doubly strive to give to children as he did-service sublimed by love." Apple-cheeked, fuzzy-bearded, benign, Edwin...
Meanwhile, his sea vacation over, President Roosevelt returned to the White House to find his desk littered with urgent cables from Chief U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull in London. In them Mr. Hull-described by London newshawks as a "stricken man"-revealed that the Conference steering committee was ready to vote adjournment. Blame seemed about to fall squarely on the President. By utmost efforts Mr. Hull had barely managed to persuade the Conference steering committee to hold off until next day. What was the U. S. Delegation to do? The President pondered an answer...
Evelyn, beautiful, half-Spanish artist's daughter, was comfortably married. She had two children, a luxurious Manhattan house, a nice place in the country, plenty of spending-money from her elderly lawyer husband, John, and a poverty-stricken youth to look back on. She had even inherited a certain amount of talent from her father. But the poor thing was bored. Her husband bored her, and her husband's friends. When Larry Kennard (né Swenson), a Greenwich Village literary racketeer and professional ladies' man, picked her up one day in a hotel lobby, she was thrilled...