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High in a Manhattan office building last week a tall, white-haired man proudly thumbed three dummy paperbacked books. Vivid covers proclaimed them Vol. I, No. 1 of Swift Story Magazine (It Fits Your Pocket), The Pocket Magazine and The Dime Novel. First of the three was ready for publication this week. But it was The Dime Novel, scheduled to appear next month, which brought a reflective smile to the white-haired man-William Gilbert Patten ("Burt L. Standish"), author of the famed old time Frank Merriwell series, now venturing for the first time as his own publisher...
Last week's inquest into the revolver suicide of rich young William E. Swift of Chicago at Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles' expensive Manhattan sanitarium (TIME, Aug. 25) gave Dr. Cowles opportunity to answer nasty rumors about his professional conduct, particularly about his administration of narcotics to patients...
After the interrogation had proceeded a while and Dr. Cowles had said that Swift had habitually used large quantities of bromo seltzer and that at the sanitarium he had received only chloral hydrate as a nerve sedative, Mr. Ullman snapped at Dr. Cowles: "You've had experiences of this kind [i. e. suicides] before, haven...
...Cowles grew angry: "I want to know if you are trying to get information or to hurt my reputation." No reply. Dr. Cowles, quieter, then declared that the Swift suicide was the first on his premises...
Equivocal was Examiner Norris' statement at the end of his investigation: "I think we've got to believe the story that the [Swift] wound was self-inflicted. From the evidence, what else can we do? It would be a long, hard road if we were to assume otherwise...