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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1938.
BROADCASTER'S DRINK WAS POISONED
NO RING YET FOR SYLVIA
By Joan Goldthorp
Electioneering Enemy Nearly Kills Three
New York.
SOON after making a campaign broadcast from his hotel room in Louisville, Kentucky, Governor
"NO, I haven't got an engage. Chandler, candidate for the forthcoming Kentucky
meat ring-yet!" laughed primary election, collapsed and was rushed to hospital. "pocket" lm star Miss Sylvin. Sidney over the Transatlantic tele.
The hotel resident-physician revealed that the
phone from the Queen Mary recently. Governor's illness was caused by poison which had been
We were discussing the romance put into a jug of water from which he drank. between her and "Golden Boy" ac for Luther Adler, the romanee about!
Support for the doctor's statement is seen in the fact that which all theatre folk in London-two of Governor Chandler's associates who drank from the same except Mr. Adler himself-are talk-jug also became ill.
ing
As long ago as February of this more water the poison would have killed him.
The hotel doctor adds that if the Governor had drunk much year intimate friends of the knew of their unolletal engagement. couple
Mr. Chandler, who is opposing Senator Barkley, the New Miss Sidney's visit to England,Deal candidate, has abandoned his campaign for the time being they thought, could mean only one thing that she was coming over to marry Mr. Adler.
"I've known Mr. Adler for about I think," said Ming Sidney. year.
"It not deny being very fond of him, but I assure you I'm not wearing
art engageinent
ring. You see, I haven't got one yet!"
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"NO" MEANT "YES"
"We're both
very, very 100d friends, but I can't tell you If, or when, we're going. to marry."
Short, bespectacled Mr. Adler was even more ancommunleative.
No startled rabbit could have scut- tled away much quicker than he did when I caught him outside the St. James's Theatre.
"You won't deny you are en- Kaged?" a reporter cried, breathless at his heels,
"No." replled Mr. Aúier, fing Ing himself into an open taxicab. And that was that! Thirty-five-years-old Luther Adler is seven
years older than Sylvin Sidney, who divorced her first hus- band, Bennett Cerf, wealthy New York publisher, two years ago.
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Psychological Medicine
DOCTOR'S ADVICE
The Error Of Saying 'Nothing Is Wrong'
PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS The young doctor's disappointment would probably deepen into unnoy- ance when he heard some manths later that the patient had been cured by an osteopath or it nature curer, or by any other of the unquallded people who take the opportunity to score over medical science.
"If the doctor has been careful, it may be that the only change open to the patient is to go to someone who openly preaches Wint doctors know very little, and who will not make the How young
psychological стог of saying that doctors ignorant of psychological
who are there is nothing wrong,
medicine drive patients to the quacks
am certain that their good re wassults are due to the psychological described by Dr. T. A. Ross, of Lon-factors of faith and hope. don, in address to the British These patients have something Medical Association meeting at Ply-wrong but it is not physical; it is. mouth.
something of the nature of mental disharmony."
He summed up his experiences by saying, "Whoever starts taking care of a healthy body will soon have plenty of illness,
"A thing done often with the best intentions so as to bring a patient to take some care of himself may followed by disaster."
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS Warning of a bovine tuberculosis per to children was given by Dr. D. M. Dunlop, of Edinburgh.
He advanced the theory that Great Britain had passed the peak of a long be tuberculosis epidemic, and that the disease was now becoming less pre- valent. At the same time there was
Neuroses, said Dr. Ross, were pro-need for an unre bably the commonest single
of ill-health. Workers in its cous-
cause against the disease,ing campaign try and 12 United States had "The effort and expense involved estimated the incidence of neuroses in taken is rearmament. It is perhaps 11 fraction of that under- all Hiress at between 20 and 40 per not too much to hope that when men cent.
be
were
have learned to beat their swords In many of these neurotic
into plough-shares this problem will there nothing physically wrong
cases) be seriously tackled," Berlin. Aug. 20,"
Concer with the pallent. The young doctor "thorough surgical attacks,"
cures, swimming meet between would announce enthusiastically this described by Mr. A. Lawrence Abel, achleved by Europe and the United States, the gind news to the patient, and Amerleans won the 400 metres relay disappointed when the patient con- Beatrice Ilospital and senior assistant be senior surgeon to the Princess race for four persons, each swimming 100 metres. The Americarsed to be as lll as before and as surgeon to the Royal Cancer Hospital, were represented by Flanagan, Paul
in his complaints. Wolf, Takashihi Hirose, Otto Jaretz. Their time was 3.50 2/10 secs., which is a world's record, beating the previous best time of 4 minutes 2/10 -Reuter.
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Belfast, J. M. West, riding a B.M.W
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