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...notable feature of Florida, and one which last week threw important, bone-mending Dr. Fred Houdlett Albee into trouble with Manhattan doctors, is the shuffle of decrepit northerners through the State. St. Petersburg is full of garrulous oldsters who all day long wander from bench to bench recounting their symptoms. Miami streets are punctuated with the homes of colonic irrigators. Open air evangelists place ramps at curbs so that the palsied and the gouty can comfortably trundle their wheelchairs towards sanctity and health...
With the race between the two captains, Johnny Morse and Karl Warner, looming as the outstanding contest in the Yale meet Saturday, the dope sheets seem to threw the advantage to the Eli team. However, since the margin is a matter of only two or three points, the meet may be termed a toss...
...Winthrop men played stellar ball during the first six innings of the tile, going into the last of the seventh with a comfortable lead, but the homer by Peter and errors on the part of the Puritans suddenly threw them out on the short end of the score. Norman Letarie, Winthrop's biggest swatter, chalked up another home run for himself in the seventh...
...Long Island, nor Director Leonard George Rowntree of the Philadelphia Institute for Medical Research knew precisely what they were talking about when they reported these God-like doings in coop and cage last week. Chemists were still analyzing the substances used. But results were as clear as startling, and threw knowledge upon the gland which in cattle is called sweet bread, in children the thymus. The thymus, one of the potent ductless glands, lies just behind the breastbone immediately above the heart. Only occasion when the thymus becomes important is when, for no known reason, it grows big, causes...
Thanks to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, public knowledge of private affairs has been broadened more in the past two years than in any similar period of U. S. history. Last week the Committee's catch-all investigation threw new light not only on the profits of brokers (see p. 66) but also on closed Cleveland banks. For the failure of $250,000,000 Union Trust Co. and $148,000,000 Guardian Trust Co. Ferdinand Pecora's staff blamed: 1) mismanagement; 2) a lax-Ohio Banking Department; 3) evasions of the spirit of the law. The investigators declared...