Meniscus Volume 4 Issue 2

Meniscus is a literary journal, published and supported by the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) with editors from the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The title of the journal was the result of a visit made by two of the editors to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, where James Turrell’s extraordinary installation, ‘Within without’ (2010), led them to think about how surfaces, curves, tension and openness interact. In particular, they were struck by the way in which the surface of the water features, and the uncertainty of the water’s containment, seems to analogise the excitement and anxiety inherent in creative practice, and the delicate balance between possibility and impossibility that is found in much good writing

New Approaches to Nonstate Armed Actors

The chapters incorporate presentations from a panel at the Middle East Institute’s 64th Annual Conference, held on November 4, 2010, in Washington, DC. Although the focus of the conference itself was on the Middle East, this panel discussion ranged beyond the region and reflected research on nonstate armed groups from around the world

22.1 Re-recorded Histories

Rampike Vol. 22 / No. 1 (Re-recorded Histories): Carol Stetser, Phil Hall, Diane Schoemperlen, Collete Broeders & Samantha Therrien, Niels Hav, Alison Dilworth, Stephen Bett, Faruk Ulay, Brenda F. Pelkey, Norman Lock, Vittori Baroni, Christopher Prendergast & Joseph Hubbard, Hélène Samson & Guy Sioui-Durand & Norman Cornett & Edward Sheriff Curtis, Holly Anderson, Paulo da Costa, M.A.C. Farrant, Joanna Katchutas & Christina Spina, Kye Kocher, Brian Aldiss & Misha Nogha & Richard Truhlar, Orchid Tierney, Gerry Smith, Beatriz Hausner, Robert Dawson, Len Gasparini, Vicky Reuter, Nicole Markotić & Meredith Quartermain & Fred Wah, Eldon Garnet. Cover Art: Diane Schoemperle

Winona Daily News

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Ursinus College Alumni Journal, July 1953

President\u27s page • 135 degrees awarded at 83rd annual commencement • Rev. J. Alfred Kaye commencement speaker • Baccalaureate sermon delivered by Rev. Shaffer • Medical students accomplishment report • Dr. Lauer and Rev. Jeffers elected to Board of Directors • Sun Oil president speaks to business admin. students • Ursinus summer sessions open June 4 and July 23 • Dr. Johnson honored by Western Reserve • Open scholarships awarded to seven high school seniors • Sun shines on delightful Ursinus May Day • Five local alumni groups hold spring meetings • President Glassmoyer talks things over • Alumni president Kermit Black ill • Rain fails to dampen friendly spirit of Alumni Day • Portrait of Dr. Brownback presented to Ursinus • Montgomery County homes opened for women\u27s tour • Provident Mutual wants Ursinus grads • Marion Sis Bosler coaches Ursinus mermaids • Baseball squad has best record in 39 years • Dawkins takes a first in Middle Atlantics • Track resume for 1953 • Captain Kenney only veteran tennis player • Women\u27s softball team closes another undefeated season • Women\u27s tennis team wins five, loses four • News about ourselves • Necrology • John Manning honored in mathematical competition • Alumni association plans permanent class organizationhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1046/thumbnail.jp

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume 53, Number 1, December 2003

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume 53, Number 1, December 2003 The Dean’s Column by Thomas J. Nasca ’75, Page 4 Early Anesthesia Research and Jeffersonians, Page 6 Grunwald Appointed Chair of Anesthesiology, Page 7 Marone Honored for His Involvement in Establishing the Spinal Cord Injury Center, Page 8 Alumni Are Involved in the Search for the Next University President, Page 9 The Fortunate Beneficiaries of Our Education, by Richard Wenzel ’65, Alumni Achievement Award Winner, Page 14 Reunions, Clinic Talks, the Alumni Banquet, Pages 15–3

The Independent, V. 56, Thursday, September 11, 1930, [Whole Number: 2875]

[4] p. Accept and Defend the Truth Wherever Found. Newspaper published in Collegeville, Pa. Weekly. Contains local, county, state and national news, agricultural reading matter, fiction, public sales and advertisements.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/independent/2681/thumbnail.jp

The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley

Tells the story of the infamous “Goat Gland Doctor”—controversial medical charlatan, groundbreaking radio impresario, and prescient political campaigner—and recounts his amazing rags to riches to rags career. A popular joke of the 1920s posed the question, “What’s the fastest thing on four legs?” The punch line? “A goat passing Dr. Brinkley’s hospital!” It seems that John R. Brinkley’s virility rejuvenation cure—transplanting goat gonads into aging men—had taken the nation by storm. Never mind that “Doc” Brinkley’s medical credentials were shaky at best and that he prescribed medication over the airwaves via his high-power radio stations. The man built an empire. The Kansas Medical Board combined with the Federal Radio Commission to revoke Brinkley’s medical and radio licenses, which various courts upheld. Not to be stopped, Brinkley started a write-in campaign for Governor. He received more votes than any other candidate but lost due to invalidated and “misplaced” ballots. Brinkley’s tactics, particularly the use of his radio station and personal airplane, changed political campaigning forever. Brinkley then moved his radio medical practice to Del Rio, Texas, and began operating a “border blaster” on the Mexico side of the Rio Grande. His rogue stations, XER and its successor XERA, eventually broadcast at an antenna-shattering 1,000,000 watts and were not only a haven for Brinkley’s lucrative quackery, but also hosted an unprecedented number of then-unknown country musicians and other guests. R. Alton Lee, the author of several books including Eisenhower and Landrum-Griffin: A Study in Labor-Management Politics, taught history at the University of South Dakota for thirty years. In his splendid book, R. Alton Lee tells the story of a charlatan who used the radio to advertise his outrageous cures for impotence and to promote his amazing political career. —Associated Press Now comes Mr. Lee, a serious historian and author, who became captivated by the facts and myths of the man and has produced a very sound and captivating book. —Baltimore Sun Long before magnet therapy and miracle diet pills, one man in the United States invented much of the modern era of health quackery. —Bloomsbury Review A documented, unbiased, and thorough . . . account that suggests Brinkley wasn’t really a charlatan and quack (his medical education was somewhat better than average for his time) but was a first-rate con man. . . . A high-quality biography of a once-famous, then notorious, but now little-known figure. —Booklist A case can be made that Brinkley was the most important medical charlatan in our history. R. Alton Lee has given us the finest account yet of the Brinkley story. —Bulletin of the History of Medicine Lee has written a sympathetic, balanced biography of a man who represented a not uncommon, but dying, breed of physician in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. —Choice An informative and entertaining account of this larger-than-life character. . . . A thoroughgoing assessment of one of America\u27s foremost twentieth-century quacks. —Great Plains Quarterly John Brinkley was without question one of the half dozen most irregular and deceptive medical figures of the United States during the twentieth century, even had he not also pioneered advertising over the radio and entered politics, running for the Senate from Kansas. —James H. Young Probably the most complete life study of the radio phenomenon of the 1930s. . . . The saga of this flawed genius is told with good humor, grudging respect, and considerable detail. —Journal of Southern History A good read; it offers a glimpse into a bizarre episode of the past. —Journal of the West Records an interesting chapter in Kansas’s history and paves the way for further scholarship on John R. Brinkley, the Kansas ‘goat gland doctor.’ —Kansas History Crisp, meticulous and cheerfully cynical. —Lexington Herald-Leader Anybody with an interest in Kansas history, or in the personalities that are a part of that history, will enjoy it. —Manhattan Mercury Those interested in American charlatanism will enjoy the tale of this ‘showman par excellence.’ —Publishers Weekly Follows Brinkley’s remarkable career from Beta (outside Sylva) to Medford, Kansas to Del Rio, Texas and beyond. It is an astonishing journey, and it answers all the ‘fact or fiction’ questions about this man who lived a life that could only occur in America. —Smoky Mountain News Brinkley’s medical curiosity not only led to advanced medical research but also his use of radio for campaigning changed American politics forever. This story of Dr. Brinkley’s life and times is an American epic. —St. Joseph News-Press No one has ever gone broke overestimating the desire of men to boost their sexual prowess. But decades before Viagra, another, less medically sound solution came sweeping across the Kansas plains: transplanted goat testicals. —U.S. News & World Report Lee’s fun—and shocking—biography brings back to life the brilliant and deceitful Brinkley (1885-1942), who made and lost millions of dollars in a scam claiming to restore sexual vitality by implanting the sex glands of goats into humans. —Wall Street Journalhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/1117/thumbnail.jp