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...head a straw hat, on his arm a stick, in his breast pocket a handkerchief, at his throat a red cravat with large white polka dots, the chief police officer of the U. S. Senate last week set out upon a manhunt. Last year Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney tracked down through a fairyland of misadventures Lawyer-Lobbyist William P. MacCracken, one-time Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, helped to have him jailed for ten days for contempt of the Senate (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934, et seq.). Now Sleuth Jurney, on behalf of his Senatorial masters...
...voice is free again, unbridled after years of struggle with the potato. The result of my operation is just short of marvelous. Even now. when I am not fully recovered. I need hardly open my mouth to obtain the pure tones difficult when the potato was in my throat. . . . My voice is like a young colt; I will have to restrain...
...this time, a small goitre, which she called her "potato," had made its appearance on her throat, severely cutting down her respiration. However, she started on a European tour, reduced her price to $2,200. She had her usual successes in London and Prague but in Budapest one night an audience astonished and dismayed her by booing and catcalling her Violetta in La Traviata. To newshawks she presently explained that she had caught a cold, announced that she could not buck Europe s prejudice against her high prices, canceled the rest of her tour. Since then, indefatigably carrying...
...Bernard B. Robinson, lobbyist of A. G. & E.. testified that he had talked with Mr. Hopson by telephone four days earlier but did not known his whereabouts. "Mr. Hopson is not a well man. I've been told by physicians that if he ever developed a sore throat he would choke to death." "If you knew where he was would you tell the committee?" "Well. I don't believe I would." "Then we will ask you. Do you know where...
Thorburn, 47, Manhattan ear-throat-nose specialist, is more cocky about osteopathy. A doctor of medicine, he once declined the invitation of a medical school to establish a full course in osteopathy, because the medical school refused to require six years for the osteopathy course. To the Cleveland convention he promised lots of publicity for osteopaths: "What osteopathy requires is the presentation of proper information to newspapers and magazines, and otherwise, and one of the most important steps in securing this is a personal understanding of osteopathy on the part of editors of newspapers and magazines. When this same knowledge...