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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflamby Pope Brock
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"An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing" –USA Today
In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America's most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility.
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"An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing" –USA Today
In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America's most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility.
It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made "Dr." Brinkley one of America's richest men–and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country's "most daring and dangerous" charlatan out of business, yet each effort seemed only to spur Brinkley to new heights of ingenuity, and the worlds of advertising, broadcasting, and politics soon proved to be equally fertile grounds for his potent brand of flimflam.
Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation, Charlatan is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America ripe for the bamboozling.
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John Brinkley, who grew up poor in rural North Carolina but attended Rush Medical College in Chicago, got his start touring as a medicine man hawking "miracle" tonics and became famous for transplanting goat testicles into impotent men. Brinkley built his own radio station in 1923, hustling his pseudoscience over the airwaves and giving an outlet to astrologers and country music. His nemesis was Dr. Morris Fishbein, the buoyant, compulsively curious editor of the Journal of the American Medical Associationwhose luminary friends included Sinclair Lewis, Clarence Darrow and H.L. Mencken. Fishbein took aim at Brinkley in JAMA, lay publications and pamphlets distributed by the thousands. Even after the Kansas State Medical Board yanked his medical license in 1930, Brinkley ran twice for governor of Kansas and almost won. Finally, Brinkley sued Fishbein for libel and lost in a spectacular showdown. Brock (Indiana Gothic) did tremendous research on this rollicking story, but the result is at times unfocused, overwritten and digressive, borrowing just a little too much from the overblown rhetoric of its subject. 8 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. (Feb. 5)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
In this lively and absorbing biography, Brock deftly captures the consummate snake-oil salesman and gifted entrepreneur John R. Brinkley (1885-1942), in his day America's most famous (albeit uncredentialed) doctor. Not content peddling useless potions to the gullible for decent profits, Brinkley pursued fame and riches and built a wildly successful business transplanting goat testicles into thousands of men and even some women, from the poor to movie stars and politicians, all conned into parting with $750 and risking their lives for a miracle cure for impotence, infertility, or other ailments. Brock (Indiana Gothic) frames Brinkley's show-stopping exploits with a well-drawn portrait of Morris Fishbein, the editor of JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, who worked for decades to discredit Brinkley, whom he considered the most dangerous quack in the land. Brinkley, the subject of earlier biographies, including R. Alton Lee's recent The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley, masterminded innovative marketing techniques still in use today, ran a close race for governor of Kansas, and built the first "border blaster" high-wattage radio station in Mexico, his influence thus extending even into music and broadcasting in America. Not bad for a serial killer. Recommended for all public libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ10/15/07.]
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Dr. John R. Brinkley led a whopper of an American life, one overflowing with untruth. He started with an early apprenticeship in an anatomical museum that existed to sell fraudulent health tonics. By 1917, he had a questionable medical degree and his own gimmick: he claimed to restore men's virility by surgically implanting goat testicles into their bodies. In Charlatan, Pope Brock entertainingly recounts the places that this scheme took Dr. Brinkley: not just to his clinics in Kansas, Texas, and Arkansas, but into the worlds of politics, radio broadcasting, country music, and the rich and powerful.
Brinkley opened his first clinic in Milford, Kansas, claiming that augmenting your own testicles with those of an unfortunate goat was good for what ailed you. He charged a steep $750 and did booming business, ultimately owning his own radio station, all the better to tout the virtues of gland implants. Brinkley became fabulously wealthy and lived like he was waiting for MTV to invent Cribs: whenever he repainted the mansion on his 16-acre property in Del Rio, Texas, he would repaint his fleet of a dozen Cadillacs to match the house. When Brinkley sailed his yacht (he owned three in succession -- the last and largest had a crew of 21) to the Bahamas, he became friends with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (better known as the abdicated King Edward VIII and Mrs. Wallis Simpson).
Brinkley's patients -- or victims -- didn't fare so well. If they were lucky, they just went home with less money in their pockets. Others left with blood poisoning or festering wounds; dozens died at the clinic from Brinkley's butchery. Brinkley was not the only questionable doctor touting vigor borrowed from animals. Many doctors on the fringes of early-20th-century medicine were trying to find some way to exploit the power of glands; when people believed that monkey glands might provide an injection of youth, the price of chimpanzees shot up 600 percent. They were correct that there was power in glands if utterly misguided in how to access it. These medical follies eventually led to the isolation of testosterone -- and ultimately to modern steroids and congressional hearings on Roger Clemens.
Brinkley's story is still largely unknown, despite his being the subject of several books, including a pair of academic-press volumes from 2002: R. Alton Lee's Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley and Eric S. Juhnke's Quacks and Crusaders. Brock has done considerable original research for Charlatan, although he also draws heavily on Gerald Carson's 1960 volume, The Roguish World of Dr. Brinkley.
Where Brock really outdoes his predecessors is with the story of Dr. Morris Fishbein, who served as editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and played Inspector Javert to Brinkley's Valjean. Following Brinkley from state to state over the decades, the crusading Fishbein convinced various local authorities to revoke Brinkley's medical license and ultimately baited him into suing for libel, a decision that proved ruinous to Brinkley. Fishbein also rubbed elbows with a more cynical crew of celebrities: H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Eugene Debs.
Brock's prose tends toward the purple, and sometimes he strains to make his narrative fit with his designated themes. Consider this early passage: "What this meant for Brinkley and Crawford, as they plotted the future, was that the old tonic wheeze would no longer suffice. They needed something with more snap, more pizzazz, something worthy of the age of Edison." Of course, Brinkley and his conspirator were not scheming a way to better embody the tenor of the times or hoping to fit into some future sociological overview of the era -- they were just looking for a good scam.
Brinkley's life went in so many directions, Brock sometimes provides only a quick gloss on its most fascinating aspects. Take Brinkley's two campaigns for Kansas governor, in 1930 and 1932. They were full of drama and innovation: Dr. Brinkley was groundbreaking in his use of an airplane to travel around the state -- and when he wasn't in the air, he was on the air, making powerful use of the new medium of radio. The 1930 election ended with a photo-finish victory of the Democrat over the Republican, with tens of thousands of disqualified write-in ballots for the independent Brinkley. The Republican candidate declined to ask for a recount, afraid that Brinkley might end up with the victory instead. This story is as compelling as the 1948 Texas senatorial election, which provided the meat of the 592-page Means of Ascent, the second volume of Robert A. Caro's brilliant LBJ biography. Brock disposes of the 1930 and 1932 gubernatorial campaigns in chapters of nine and eight pages, respectively.
Much more satisfying is Charlatan's treatment of Brinkley's radio career. In 1930, his KFKB station ("Kansas First, Kansas Best") was the most popular radio station in the United States. His license was pulled by the Federal Radio Commission (the forerunner of the FCC) the same year, for excessive advertising and general obscenity. (The latter charge came because in Brinkley's "Medical Question Box" program, he not only handed out bad medical advice but routinely used words such as "erection.") After he sold KFKB to a Wichita insurance company, he went down to Mexico and spent $350,000 to erect two
300-foot towers that broadcast the first "border blaster" radio station, XER. By 1932, he was broadcasting on a million watts, making XER the world's most powerful radio station by far.
Brock writes: "A technician there now reported that the transmitter 'makes the hair on your arms stand up.' Locals said the signal was so strong it turned on car headlights, made their bedsprings hum, and sent Brinkley's voice wandering in and out of other people's telephone conversations.... A Montreal station two thousand miles away reported chronic interference from XER. On clear nights Brinkley reached Alaska, skipped across to Finland, was picked up by ships on the Java Sea. In later years Russian spies reportedly used the station to help them learn English."
Aside from pushing the virtues of goat testicles, XER (which Brinkley later renamed XERA) played a lot of country and Tex-Mex music. In Arkansas, a young Johnny Cash was listening -- and hearing not only the music but also the voice of his future wife June Carter. Just ten years old, she was singing on XERA with the Carter Family.
Things didn't end well for Brinkley. He became enamored of the Nazis, who were drawing on the same techniques of mass manipulation as he was. Brinkley even redecorated his swimming pool with red swastikas. He lost his radio station and his medical license; in 1941, he declared bankruptcy. After a heart attack, his health declined quickly; he died in 1942.
Despite Charlatan's subtitle, the "age of flim-flam" didn't end sometime in the middle of the 20th century. Brinkley and his peers merely presided over the dawn of flim-flam. In today's world, advertising is ever more lurid and emotional. Government initiatives such as the Clear Skies Act have effects diametrically opposed to their names. The golden age of flim-flam? We're living in it, here in the home of the whopper. --Gavin Edwards
Gavin Edwards is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and Wired, among other publications. His most recent book is Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?
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In the period before the First World War, the Reinhardt brothers, Willis and Wallace, owned a thriving chain of anatomical museums: the London Medical Institute, the Paris Medical Institute, the Heidelberg, the Copenhagen, and so forth. Located in Des Moines, Fort Wayne, East St. Louis, and other towns throughout the Midwest, they were devoted to the documentation and cure of "men's secret diseases." Most had big display windows facing the street, and what the Reinhardts put in those windows was the talk of the industry. Their most celebrated exhibit, in Minneapolis, was entitled "The Dying Custer."
He lay like Saint Sebastian, bristling with arrows, in a lavish three-dimensional tableau. Redskins, corpses, and plaster vultures added richness to the scene, but what kept passersby bunched at the window, staring in for minutes on end, was the slow, rhythmic heaving of Custer's chest. They gazed till their own breathing fell into syncit was irresistibleand that gave the Reinhardts' message time to go to work. True, Custer's connection to impotence may have been largely metaphorical, but to a certain fretful portion of the populace it struck home. Power gone, youth destroyedbut not yet, not quite yet. Inside this building there was even hope for Yellow Hair.
Mixing terror and hope was the Reinhardts' stock-in-trade. Their window in Gary, Indianaagain designed by their visionary house artist, Monsieur Brouillardfeatured a diorama of a doctor and nurse trying to save a syphilitic baby with the help of a wheezing resuscitator. But displays alone, no matter how artful, didn't make the Reinhardt twins tops in their field. From their headquarters at the Vienna Medical Institute in Chicago, where they rode herd on some three dozen franchises, they enforced levels of standardization and quality control remarkably ahead of their time. Starting with their training of salesmen: nobody worked for the Reinhardts without first graduating from the "instantaneous medical college" at the home office. This was followed by more training at the Gary branch, where each recruit was given a white coat, asked to grow a Vandyke, and made to practice his patter as if it were Gilbert and Sullivan. Only then were real customers released upon them. Serving as exhibition guides, the floor men were expected to nail twenty percent of all prospectseight out of an average forty walk-ins a dayor look for another job. The manager of each institute sent headquarters a daily financial report in triplicate.
Admission was free at all these places. The abba-dabba juice was not. Bottles of it were on sale at the exit, a fabled elixir guaranteed to soothe, stimulate, inflate, reinstate, backdate, laminate, and in general make "the withered bough quicken and grow green again," while at the same time curing and/or preventing the clap; it adapted to the needs of the customer. What was in it? What was in any of them? What was in Dr. Raphael's Cordial Invigorant, America's first big virility tonic in the 1850s, whose royal Arabian formula was made vastly more potent by the "magical influence of modern Astrologers"? What was the recipe for Baume de Vie, Elixir Renovans, the Syrop Vitae of Anthony Bellou, the Glorious Spagyric of Jone Case, or any of the others in lands and ages stretching back to the dawn of time? For the record, the Reinhardts' tonic contained three ingredientsalcohol, sugar, and a dash of "Aqua Missourianas quantitat sufficiat ad cong II"but this is pedantry.
Big as they were, the Reinhardts still had plenty of competition. Independents with similar rackets were out there grubbing in the twilight, men like Dr. Burke of Knoxville, Tennessee, who in 1907 was running his own small shop with the help of an assistant, Dr. John Brinkley.
Young Brinkley was a likely lad of twenty-two. To call him a doctor was, in the strictest sense, inaccurate, but if the white coat reassured people, the healing had begun. In truth he was the floor man and he worked on commission. Brinkley would study a prospect as he came through the door, then materializenot too soonat his elbow. The young physician chatted, he chuckled, he took a grave interest; he showed the man around. Soon the two were passing along the main line of exhibits: a stage-by-stage depiction of the male member in syphilitic decline. It spoke for itself. With each new cabinet the organ grew more deformed and the colors changed. Perhaps leprosy was mentioned by way of comparison.
In the last room the customer met The Boy.
It was known by that name throughout the trade, and every "free educational anatomical institute" worth its salt had one. The scene was replayed countless times: while the salesman hung back, or bent to tie his shoe, the customer approached a rectangular pillar walled in glass. It was pitch-dark inside. The mark moved toward it cautiously, perhaps glancing back at his guide for the go-ahead, peered in close trying to see what was in thereand then the lights blazed on full, and the grinning wax face of an idiot sprang into view. Horrifying as it was, the warning above it was even worse:
The customer knew then that he wasn't just looking at a vile mask with dripping yellow eyes. He was looking at the future. He was looking at himself.
After this bit of venereal kabuki"the convincer," in quack talkthe rest was usually easy. As Dr. Burke sat at a desk, possibly lost in a medical tome, Dr. Brinkley brought the poor sinner forward and introduced him. Burke gave him an "instant consultation" ("Are you ever thirsty?" "Do you sometimes suffer from fatigue?"warning signs all) and produced a bottle of peerless tonic, which the man was assured would save his organ and probably his life. The price was almost as big a shock as The Boy, between ten and twenty dollars, but who in his right mind would economize at a time like this? Moments later the customer was standing in the alley with the hooey in his hand and the door shut firmly behind him.
How much satisfaction Brinkley felt at such moments is unknown. The greatest quacks never gloat for long; when deception is the drug, there's no building up a supply. Besides, he had so much ambition that working in two tatty rooms with a substandard Boy could have been depressing at times.
On the other hand, he might have taken pride in having gotten so far so young. Brinkley came from the tiny town of Beta, North Carolina, tucked in the Great Smokies not far from the Tennessee line. Like his neighbors, he grew up on a hilly little farm that produced mostly rocks. He ate mush and greens and lashed gunnysacks to his feet for winter boots. The thick forests and hard climbs, the rainy days when bowls of fog gathered in the valleys, the strangers scarce as hen's teeth: all this conspired to make the outside world seem little more than a rumor, so it was natural that most people, if they started out there, stayed put.
Not Brinkley. "Kind of a recklesslike boy," one neighbor called him. "Lively as a cricket," another said. And all the while he burned with a bitter fire, and he dreamed. ("I thought of John Brinkley freeing the slaves," he said later, "John Brinkley illuminating the world, John Brinkley facing an assassin's bullet for the sake of his people, John Brinkley healing the sick.") But with the slaves freed, the world lit, and nobody caring enough about him to kill him, he chose number foursort of. First he married Sally Wike, a spitfire from a neighboring farm, as eager as he was to escape the prison of the mountains. Then "he got up a little play," as Mrs. Ann Bennett, who boarded them briefly, recalled it, "and he and his wife and some more people went on the road from town to town, you know, giving little plays."
He sang and he danced and he healed. Barely twenty, Brinkley got his precocious start touring as a type of medicine man known as a Quaker doctor. Though, in the general run of Quakers, specialty numbers were almost unknown, some itinerant quacks in those days liked to impersonate them, trading on their legendary rectitude. Some folks saw through the act, but it hardly mattered. Fooling some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time was plenty.
They usually performed at night. A platform was unfolded and torches placed at each corner as the audience gathered, drawn by handbills and word of mouth. While there is no specific record of a Brinkley performance, there was a set pattern to most Quaker-doctor shows. First a fiddler or a dancer got the crowd warmed up. A short morality play followed, in which a noble head of house or ringleted female died pathetically for lack of a miracle tonic, identified by name. Finally the physician himself (Brinkley) shot onstage in a dinner-plate hat, cutaway coat, and pious pants that buttoned up the sides, theeing and thouing, singing and selling, waving a bottle of Ayer's Cathartic Pills. Or maybe Burdock Blood Bitters or Aunt Fanny's Worm Candy. One thing was for sure, whatever it was cured whatever you had.
With his unerring nose for where the money was, Brinkley had already become an American archetype: the quack on the boards. For in our nation with its special genius for swindlewhere swampland, beefsteak mines, and tickets to nonexistent attractions practically sell themselvesmedical fraud had always been the king of cons. At the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, a man dressed as a cowboy appeared onstage and strangled rattlesnakes by the dozen. He called what came out of them snake oil. People bought it.
Of course quacks have flourished in all ages and cultures, for nothing shows reason the door like cures for things. Unlike most scams, which target greed, quackery fires deeper into Jungian universals: our fear of death, our craving for miracles. When we see night approaching, nearly all of us are rubes.
Still, there has probably never been a more quack-prone and quack-infested country than the United States. Flocking west with the pioneers, they struck in one town, vanished to the next, and taught their tricks to others. Dupes were as common as passenger pigeons. Many Americans viewed hospitals, sometimes with justice, as tricked-up funeral homes and doctors as crooks who had a financial stake in keeping them sick.
But quacks weren't just accepted; they were joyously embraced, thanks to a perverse seam in the American mind stretching back almost to the dawn of the republic.
It first appeared in the early nineteenth century. In the heady days of Jacksonian democracy, that delirious celebration of the ordinary, the nation's elitepreachers, doctors, lawyerswere overthrown (at least mentally) with an abandon reminiscent of the French Revolution. Suddenly, to be educated was to be despised. Now, when it came to physicians, Americans not only tolerated but demanded incompetence. So high was the common man exalted that state governments, all but three, actually repealed licensing requirements for doctors. In midcentury educator Lemuel Shattuck, asked by the Massachusetts legislature to conduct a sanitary survey of that state, reported back: "Any one, male or female, learned or ignorant, an honest man or a knave, can assume the name of physician, and 'practice' upon any one, to cure or to kill, as either may happen, without accountability. It's a free country!"
The result of all this deregulation was the quack equivalent of the Oklahoma Land Rush, with effects that lasted for generations to come. Legitimate doctors had difficulty fighting back, their own record being spotty at best. Take Dr. Benjamin Rush, friend to the founders, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and by common consent the father of American medicine, who for many years after his death remained the nation's best-known physician. Hardworking, honest, a man who took his role as medical counselor to the nation seriously, he was also a virtual death machine, as grossly misguided as he was sincere. Rush favored bombing the body with mercury-laced calomel (which caused rampant diarrhea, bleeding of the gums, and uncontrolled drooling), blistering with hot irons (pain to no purpose), tobacco-smoke enemas, and bleeding by the pint. Some remember him today as the man who murdered George Washington, albeit unintentionally. Of course every evil has its upside: thanks in part to men like Rush, degenerative diseases of the heart, liver, kidneys, and so forth were almost unknown because so few people lived long enough to contract them.
So just who were the quacks? In this melee of plagues and poisons did it even matter? Granted, the people who bought pills against earthquakes were probably wasting their money, but when a man like Elisha Perkins (a contemporary of Dr. Rush) came along with his "galvanic tractors," fussing over the body with some hocus-pocus and two metal rods, at least he held with Hippocrates and did no harm. Like Dr. Rush, Dr. Perkins believed in what he was doing. Both were wrong, yet the one was honored and the other condemned. Given history like this, it becomes easier to understand why the people John Brinkley played toespecially the sick and frightenedwere willing to give that youngster onstage the benefit of the doubt.
Confederates passed through the crowd laden with bottles of medicine for sale, while he cried up its vitalizing force, efficacious effluvium, and low, low price.
"All sold out, Doctor!"
"Bless you, my friends!"
The little troupe disbanded within a few months, and Brinkley never sang or danced for the rest of his career. Though he learned some important lessons, which he would later apply on the world stage, he was a faux scientist of the twentieth century, not a clown of the nineteenth. Working for Dr. Burke, his next step, at least put him in the right coat. But like his early role model, Abraham Lincoln, his ambition was a little engine that knew no rest, and in 1908 Brinkley moved on again, heading north this time toward the big city.
One thing at least would have been familiar: the fog that dragged, Smoky Mountain-style, across the grain elevators along the Chicago River. Some days it swallowed up portions of the city. It settled in doorways and ballooned slowly from passageways and alleys, mixing with steam and coal smoke, through which pedestrians burst as if out of a dream.
The city threw light at the problem. Along with snake oil, its recent world's fair had showcased Edison's great breakthrough, and ever since then Chicago had been his best customer. It became a city, one resident said, of "incredibly long lanes of street-lamps, up and down the slopes; light everywhere; light lavished and wasted; as much candle-power used in a week as the whole nation once used in a year." And it was by this light, on an evening's prowl along the Gold Coast, that Brinkley first beheld the world he had always dreamed of.
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POPE BROCK is the author of the critically acclaimed Indiana Gothic, the story of his great-grandfather's murder in 1908. Brock has written for numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, and the London Sunday Times Magazine. He lives in upstate New York with his twin daughters, Molly and Hannah.
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Imagine, if you will, a time when water laced with radium promoted good health, wearing an electric fez was guaranteed to re-grow hair, and having the 'glands' of a monkey or goat grafted onto your own could restore youth and sexual virility. Sounds like the Dark Ages, right? Try something a bit closer to today... say, less than 100 years ago. These treatments and others were common in an America struggling to recover from the horror of World War I and the shock of the Great Depression. Some were legitimate trial-and-error experiments by trained and learned physicians. Most were dangerous, sometimes deadly frauds perpetrated by skilled fly-by-night 'doctors' who make the fictional Professor Harold Hill look like a saint. Pope Brock's new book ''Charlatan'' focuses on the meteoric rise and fall of Dr. John Brinkley -- the most famous of the early 20th century's medical hucksters -- and Morris Fishbein, the crusading editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, who made it his life's work to bust medical quacks of all stripes, but Brinkley in particular. It's also a startling look at how far the medical profession has come in the past century, in terms of approving the education and conduct of its members. Brock takes what could have been dry and dull and makes it into a crackling read. A definite must-read!
In addition to the excellent points in the Dr's review, the author peels back a very important layer of the 30's in America when a powerful flirtation with Facism bubbled to the surface in many more places than we would like to admit. The so called 'Dr.' Brinkley was an open admirer of Adolf Hitler and an active participant in the America First movement. The Dr. may have well won election as govenor of Kansas by independently taking up the campaign vehicle that der Furher is credited with inventing - the campaign airplane. The Democrats and the Republicans likely colluded to prevent his election. If so it was a rare instance in American history when the end may well have really justified the means. Brinkely also pionered talk radio and mass marketing. Folks like Johnny Cash got their careers started on his border blaster radio station located just south of the Rio Grande.
I teach and study the history of nutrition. Plenty of books in this genre (including the histories of food studies and public health, etc., too) have been published, but, unfortunately, far too many are unengaging and, to be frank, rather dull. "Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam" is a wonderful exception, however. To begin, the text is captivating, making the book difficult to put down. When other duties called, I was eager to return to "Charlatan" to see what the upcoming pages had in store. In addition, Brock treated John Brinkley with respect while writing about his escapades. True, the words "Charlatan" and "Dangerous Huckster" in the book's title are far from complimentary, but, let's face it, although John Brinkley had his fair share of flaws, which are documented in the book, he had Midas' golden touch for much of his life. I'm not at all implying that Brinkley acted ethically or honorably, but Brock ably presented Brinkley's life's complexities -- a trait we all share lest we become one-dimensional and entirely predictable. Pope balances Brinkley's wrong-doings with observations that he was a savvy, intelligent (in a "street smart" way, if nothing else), can-do person. Brinkley wasn't evil incarnate; he was human.
The early to mid-twentieth century was a time of "anything goes" in patent medicine and medical quackery; the author weaves the almost unbelievable story of the King of Quacks and the man who tried unceasingly to expose him into a tapestry of background history of the period. I even learned how the powerful border radio stations that I used to listen to as a teen got started...
A look into history, this book fascinated me as a physician and a Kansas resident. This con artist had a huge impact in marketing, radio advertising and selling himself. He was almost elected govener of Kansas. The AMA should consider going back to it's roots, of ferreting out scam artist and sham procedures. We need more accountability in medicine, just because some treatment is new or uses some new tangled technology does not mean it is better. Look at Medtronics today and BMP 2. We have not really progressed much in medcine. Great book.
Pope Brock's cautionary tale is an eye-opener. Everyone from Herbert Hoover to June Carter to Wolfman Jack makes an appearance. John Brinkley was a charlatan on a superhuman scale, a con man of unimaginable nerve, imagination and brilliance - who was responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands of deaths and untold suffering while becoming the best known and wealthiest doctor in the world. His nemesis, Morris Fishbein of the nascent AMA, is also a larger-than-life character. Brinkley invented modern political campaigns and is the godfather of country music in the USA thanks to his million watt broadcasts to all 50 states. A terrific, informative book.

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USC was one of the first to offer DB Desmond Cain of Delray Beach, FL having the Gamecocks out front for his services for some time. However, the lack of contact from USC may have changed that. "I haven't heard from coach Grady (Brown) in a while, to be honest," Cain said. "I tried calling him a couple of times but he didn't answer."
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NEW YORK (AP) - Italian con man Raffaello Follieri, who went from dating actress Anne Hathaway to serving a prison term for fraud, isn't enjoying the "unspeakably unsanitary" conditions at a federal jail in Brooklyn.
Follieri is serving a 4 1/2 year prison term after pleading guilty to cheating investors out of millions of dollars. He had falsely claimed he had Vatican connections that enabled him to buy church property at a discount.
His lawyer says Follieri reports that he's in a windowless dormitory with about 120 others. He says he can't eat because the food appears to be spoiled and that there's excrement in the shower and rats are roaming freely in the area.
A judge has asked the government to investigate the conditions.
Before being caught, Follieri's playboy lifestyle included a $37,000-a-month Manhattan apartment and lavish vacations with Hathaway.
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Sega's blue wonder Sonic the Hedgehog turns 20 today. The first Sonic game released on June 23 in North America and Europe on Mega Drive 20 years ago. Anniversary celebrations have already consisted of the release of an iOS app that catches you up on Sonic-related happenings, as well as a demo of Sonic Generations on PSN later today and other Sonic-related deals for the PS Store. There's also a packshot of the game below. We've posted the PS3 version, but the 360 version looks the same, sans the logos, etc.
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I haven't actually made any payments on my student loans yet and am still in deferment so I've no idea how it looks and what is allowed or not after going past a certain point in their website process for payments.
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DENVER — The Middlebury College baseball team suffered a rough season this past spring; the Panthers managed just four wins. But, despite the losing record, junior relief pitcher Mark Dickerson's enthusiasm for the game remained strong as the NESCAC season drew to a close in early May.
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NEW HAVEN — Among the new features at the 68th annual Addison County Fair & Field Days next week will be a small item that many visitors won't even see — a new, more complex ticket.
After a rash of fraudulent tickets cost the nonprofit that runs the fair almost $12,000 last year, organizers have taken steps to make sure it never happens again.
BENSON — As we walked toward the starting line in Benson earlier in July, Rita Beardwood pointed at my ankles and laughed heartily.
"Say goodbye to your socks," she said.
Beardwood's joke held a degree of seriousness. After several days of rain, anyone setting foot on the Shale Hill Adventure Farm obstacle course was going to emerge needing a shower and clean clothes.
ADDISON COUNTY — Andrew Munkres's summer has gotten off to a busy start. As a bus driver during the school year, he looks forward to summer when he can return to his 150 hives at the Lemonfair Honeyworks in Cornwall.
"It's pretty hard work for a summer vacation," he said. "In the spring when the beekeeping is ramping up and the school year is slowing down, it's pretty tough juggling both."
BRISTOL — The price is right. That was the message Bristol voters sent Tuesday by approving a $3.19 million bond to build a new firehouse.
The 415-140 decision came at the end of a two-year process, during which Bristol's Fire Facility Building Committee evaluated some 31 possible sites, discussed plans and held informational meetings.
BRISTOL — For several years Bristol has been looking for a solution to the problem posed by its deteriorating, century-old firehouse.
In an election on Tuesday, residents approved a $3.19 million bond for a new a new firehouse by a tally of 415-140.
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MIDDLEBURY — Peter Hamlin says that while winter in Vermont is for the mountains, the summers are for the lakes. Hamlin has been enjoying Lake Champlain since he was a student at Middlebury College 30-plus years ago when he also worked as a chauffeur at the Basin Harbor Club in Vergennes and often canoed across the lake on the weekends to hike and explore in the Adirondacks.
A CONSTRUCTION CREW works Monday on Middlebury's new recreation center being built off Creek Road.
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CARLYN RAPOPORT, SEEN here at a last week's swim meet in Vergennes, won the 10-and-under breaststroke event at Tuesday's meet hosted by the Burlington Tennis Club.
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Theodore Roosevelt — he's the one who doesn't have a highway in Manhattan named after him — seems to be enjoying a resurgent popularity among the city's political and chattering classes.
T.R. re-entered the collective consciousness on Monday when Bob Turner, a Republican, officially kick-started his campaign to fill the vacancy in New York's Ninth Congressional District. You probably know it better as Anthony D. Weiner's former House seat.
Mr. Turner will run against the Democrats' choice, Assemblyman David I. Weprin. Party leaders, not voters, picked both of these candidates to run in a special election that the governor set for Sept. 13. Sic transit the new era of political openness we'd been hearing so much about.
Mr. Turner got rolling on Monday at Station Square in Forest Hills, Queens. His campaign pointed out that on the same spot, during World War I and well past his presidency, Roosevelt delivered a line that would be quoted across the decades. "There can be no 50-50 Americanism in this country," he said. "There is room here for only 100 percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."...
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On Expansion in Hawaii. Just looked it up. Walgreens has plans to open about 25 to 30 stores. Look on Google, Walgreens stores in Hawaii. Star Bulletin has a nice article on expansion. As soon as Walgreens masters the high priced area of Hawaii which also gets alot of visitors from Japan. Just like their expansion into New York.
Here's the deal and the reason Walgreens needs to look outside for a new CEO. The company planned to have 5 stores open in Hawaii by now. They still have only one. Let's assume that CVS's bid for Longs put things on hold until Walgreens could figure out a response. There-in lays the problem. Longs is the dominant drug store chain in Hawaii. Walgreens could have bought the Hawaii market by making the initial offer for Longs. They didn't. Why not - because the Walgreen culture never believed in growth by acquisition. They wanted all of their locations to be pristine Main and Main sites. So now CVS is going to be their primary competitor in Hawaii and they are a far more imposing operator than Longs. The inability to anticipate that CVS might try to acquire Longs, especially given their history of making large acquisitions, is pathetic. They obviously didn't think there was a realistic chance that CVS would buy Longs or they would have made the first offer instead of reacting to the situation.Walgreens is one of the best retailers in the country. The stock is clearly under priced. But if they want to regain leadership in the industry they must find a leader that doesn't carry the cultural baggage that will come with any of the current executives.


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An year-long protest demanding dignified rehabilitation for displaced riot victims will be launched from here on Thursday by an NGO headed by social activist Teesta Setalvad.
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A memorandum on the demands of the residents of Citizen's Nagar, Faisal Park and Ekta Nagar will be submitted to the state government, Setalvad said.
The state government had shown scant respect to the Millennium Development Goals for Gujaratis in general and particularly for the 2002 victims, said Setalvad, convenor of Citizens for Justice and Peace.
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Back in October we checked out remote tracking software e-GPS. Felix let me know that the app is currently on sale for just $0.99 through January 14th (down from $4.99). The app lets you track and wipe your device remotely, all via email commands. You can locate the device by GPS, and even email your contacts list to youself should the device go missing. e-GPS is a great alternative to some subscription based trackers if you're willing to sacrifice for fewer options. Head over to the CrackBerry App Store to pick up e-GPS at a huge discount.
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I loaded it to my Curve, but my question is if I do lose my phone, where do I send my email to???? I got an email showing me the commands to send, but where do I send them? If I lose my phone I can't send an SMS to my phone so what email do I use?
I loaded it to my Curve, but my question is if I do lose my phone, where do I send my email to???? I got an email showing me the commands to send, but where do I send them? If I lose my phone I can't send an SMS to my phone so what email do I use?
You have at least one email account you use on your phone, right? THAT is the email address you use. Email yourself in other words. Obviously you need access to a PC (Or someone else's smartphone) and email (or I prefer sending a sms text to my phone #) the command you want to launch.
Got it, thanks!
How long does it take to receive the email of your backups and location? I have SMS'd myself as well as emailed and it's been about a half hour...NOTHIN'.
After loading it on my Curve and finally figuring out how to use it I tested it. When requesting my contacts list within several minutes it emailed them to me, so a thumbs up there. I also sent out an alert request and within a minute my phone was beeping and would not stop until I shut my phone off, so a thumbs up there. The only problem was when requesting my location, it could not locate my current location, it gave my last known location which is miles away and was off there about a block or two away from my house, so a thumbs down there. Two out of three ain't bad I suppose.
I bought two copies when it was on sale for $2.49 in December; one for myself, and one for a friend who lost her BlackBerry and a very expensive bottle of Barolo in a gypsy limo in San Francisco a couple of years ago. We both think it rocks.
It's a great app for a fraction of the price of subsdription tracking software like SmrtGuard. In fact, its "alert" feature (your BB makes a loud sound so you can find it) is BETTER than SmrtGuard's, which doesn't work properly if you have the phone on the loud or medium profile. (I misplace my BB often, and love being able to find it when it's under my bed, stuck between sofa cushions, in the pocket of the jacket I put in the closet, in the bottom of my basket of dirty laundry...).
I did a review of e-gps a while back...
I am able to enable/ disable the app on my Storm by simply clicking the button and pressing back without ever entering the pin. Not much piece of mind...
e-GPS has features that look very promising. However, the implementation of this program, fails miserably. The program fails to work consistently. The locate feature or the alert feature will occasionally for me, but the majority of the time, the commands seem to do nothing.
I contacted customer service and they suggested a battery pull. I pulled the batter again (also did it when I installed the program) and the results did not improve. I then emailed customer service back multiple times without a response. After a couple of weeks of no response, I asked Felix how I could get some assistance. He asked me for all of the various details on my Blackberry, what other programs I had running, etc., so he could send to the programmer to determine what the issue was. I sent this info off, and never got a reply from Felix or the developer. After several more weeks of no responses to emails, I asked for a full refund since this program does not work. Felix has refused to provide a refund. Blackberry App World will not respond either.
If you want to take a chance that this program may work, go for it and I wish you good luck. If you ever need technical support or customer service, good luck on getting any response. If you do get a response, I doubt it will help resolve the issue.
I suggest you save your money you would pay for this program, and instead go with the free version of SmrtGuard. I've used it for a few days, it works consistently, and their customer service is vastly superior to that offered for e-GPS.


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Would probably be a good game but like all games that use kinect it is horrible. The kinect makes the game just about unplayable. If they could have found a better way for you to control the guy it would have been a good game. I lost count of how many times i had to restart I think it was level 9 of the first set due to the kinect's bad tracking. Constantly would think that i would move my arm and it would ether fling leedmee off the map or crush them against something. Sometimes would even think that while crouching I would left up and do the same thing. I just wish developers would realize the kinect is garbage and not make games with it. The only thing it is good for is the voice settings for games and you don't even need kinect to do that with. They can do voice prompts with a head set.
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No. 5 Foothill hands Tustin its first setback
Justin Davis carried fifth-ranked Foothill for three quarters, and his team rallied around its stout defense late as the Knights defeated No. 6 Tustin, 58-50, Saturday night in a nonleague boys basketball game at Foothill High.
Davis scored a game-high 30 points as the Knights (10-1) battled their way to a seventh consecutive victory.
Foothill handed the Tillers (10-1) their first loss due largely to its strong defense. The Knights held Nick Hornsby and Deondre Bryant, the Tillers' top-two scorers, to just seven points in the first half.
Kyle Lawson drew the assignment of guarding Hornsby. Hornsby, who signed with Sacramento State, shot just 4 of 24 from the field for a nine points.
"He's been guarding the other team's best guy every night," Knights coach Rusty Van Cleave said. "He's really matured in that role."
Foothill opened up a big lead early. The Knights spread the ball around and five scored in the first quarter. A buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Lawson gave the Knights a 16-6 edge after one quarter.
The Tillers made an adjustment in the second quarter, attacking the rim and converting a pair of layups after contact to give themselves 3-point opportunities. Tustin matched its first quarter output on its first two possessions of the second period, but the Tillers were unable to put a dent in the Knights' lead. Davis scored 10 points in the quarter, and Foothill led, 29-20, at the half.
Davis continued his hot night coming out of the break. He scored 10 points in the third period, making the Tillers pay with a combination of dribble penetration and good free-throw shooting. Davis was true on 16 of 18 free-throw attempts in the game.
Bryant came alive for the Tillers in the third, scoring 10 points as Tustin closed to six entering the final period.
Despite Hornsby's struggles, the Tillers refused to go away. A Bryant layup with 5:40 left tied it at 48, as the Tillers completed a 10-2 run midway through the fourth quarter.
Jacob Dean followed with a go-ahead layup, and Connor Stevens made good on a pair of 2-point baskets to keep the Knights in front for good.
Davis was proud of his teammates' ability to come through with the game on the line, saying, "It's huge. We preach team, and we play collectively."
Rivalry games bring out the best in some players, and Van Cleave could remember when he was a part of the rivalry growing up.
"It's a great rivalry," he said. "You have two teams with local kids. They're both having great seasons."
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Still living off credit cards? Can't figure out how much you could or should spend? Need to save for retirement? Deborah McNaughton, a Placentia credit expert, financial coach and author of "The Essential Credit Repair Handbook," is here to provide her financial advice:
Q. I'm having a hard time getting an answer to what I think is a simple question. Should I pursue a short sale?
I purchased my home in 2005 with two loans — a $540,000 adjustable rate mortgage (currently at 6.5%, interest-only loan) and a $60,000 at 8% fixed, no money down. The value of the home is now down to less than $400,000.
I don't want to be trapped in this house anymore. No one will refinance me since I am so upside down and this is not a Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae loan. I don't qualify for any of the federal programs.
I have read but cannot confirm that this is the last year that forgiven loan amounts will NOT be reported to IRS as income. Help please!
A. My suggestion to you is to contact your accountant to see what the rules are regarding IRS income before you make any decision.
President Barack Obama is trying to push through additional legislation for loans on properties that are not Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. It's hard to know what the outcome will be and when it will take effect if passed.
Trying to make a decision on a short sale vs. walking away with a foreclosure is difficult.
If you decide that you really want to move on, a short sale would be your best option to try first. If it doesn't work and you are behind in your mortgage payments a foreclosure will ultimately follow. At least you know you have tried everything.
Both a short sale and foreclosure are bad entries on a credit report. Some say the short sale is less damaging and has a quicker recovery for a future purchase on a home. Decisions by banks and lenders change, so it is best to always find out what the new policies are pertaining to credit qualification.
If you decide to do either one of these things, make sure you are saving your money to put down on a rental. Your credit report will be damaged either way you go and a landlord may require a large deposit and/or more than one month rent. The important thing to do when you have found a place to rent is to be upfront with the landlord and let them know about your credit report and before you make a rental application. Every property owner has their own ideas and formulas on what they will adhere to when accepting a tenant to rent their property.
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The credit card companies are calling me every day from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. and I have explained my situation but they insist that I talk to one of their financial people. I am extremely concerned that they may start harassing my children (who are also going through some financial difficulties). I had looked into bankruptcy but cannot afford the $1,500 to start the proceeding.
A. Now is the time that you are supposed to be free from these worries. Many retirees are in the same situation as you are.
It is understandable that you are annoyed with the credit card companies calling you, but it is in your best interest to talk with them. I'm sure you already have explained your situation and perhaps they can put you on a payment plan that will be within your budget. Whatever you agree on, get it in writing first.
Another thing you can do is contact a non-profit credit counseling organization that may be able to step in and get a reduction in your payments. One that I recommend is Cambridge Credit Counseling at: 800-208-5084.
Even though you are retired, you may want to get a part-time job until you can pay this credit card debt off. If that's not an option, try using your skills and talents or hobbies to earn extra money.
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GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old northwestern New Mexican man in a homicide.
FBI spokesman Frank Fisher says agents arrested Kevin Martinez of Church Rock on Thursday in the death of [auth] Leslie Morgan of Thoreau.
Fisher says Martinez will make his initial appearance in federal court in Albuquerque on Friday.
The Gallup Independent (http://bit.ly/1jl8YBA ) reports that Morgan was a 45-year-old preschool teacher who was last seen leaving his home in his vehicle on March 5.
Morgan was found dead Friday on Navajo Nation land outside Gallup, and the FBI had confirmed it was investigating the death as a homicide.
McKinley County Sheriff's Office investigators arrested Martinez on a misdemeanor warrant Friday and he was also accused of possession of a stolen motor vehicle and tampering with evidence.
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I see no buttons anywhere that allows me to use this plugin. I can use a generic gallery tool with wordpress which does not produce anything like the gamma gallery. I see a plugin for a different gallery that has a button on the left. That seems to work. But its not what I want. I would like to use the gamma gallery.
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By Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON Federal Reserve policymakers gather this week amid growing signs the U.S. economy is hitting a sweet spot that will allow them to leave interest rates untouched for months.
Recent data on manufacturing, business investment and trade suggest the economy has picked up speed from the extreme slowdown seen early in the year. At the same time, the Fed's favorite inflation measure is moderating, suggesting the economy doesn't need tinkering from the nation's central bank after its two-day meeting ends Thursday.
"There's no reason for the Fed to move either way for a while," says Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at Global Insight in Lexington, Mass. Behravesh expects the Fed to stay on hold the rest of the year.
Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wachovia in Charlotte, anticipates the Fed won't change rates until it raises them in spring 2008.
"The economy is pretty much doing everything (Fed officials) want it to do right now," Vitner says. "The slowdown is behind us. Inflation is cooling off."
The Fed has kept interest rates unchanged for a year after raising them 17 times from June 2004 through June 2006. The Fed's target for short-term interest rates, which influence borrowing costs across the economy, is 5.25%. That's the highest rate in 6½ years but is still lower than the 6.5% peak seen in the prior interest rate increase cycle.
The U.S. economy in the first quarter grew a mere 0.6% at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, the slowest pace in more than four years. Such a slowdown led to some speculation in financial markets that the Federal Reserve would cut rates this year.
But data have suggested most sectors of the economy that acted as a drag in the first quarter have since picked up, despite continued weakness in housing. Activity in the manufacturing sector in May expanded at the fastest pace in more than a year, according to the Institute for Supply Management. Exports increased in March and April, and a proxy for business investment expanded, as well, according to the government.
Both Vitner and Behravesh estimate economic activity is growing faster than 3% in the second quarter.
But faster growth hasn't added to inflationary pressures. Instead, the Fed's preferred inflation measure, based on spending excluding food and energy, was 2% in April and data out next week are expected to show the number below 2% in May, according to Ethan Harris of Lehman Bros. That's down from 2.4% in February and, most important for the Fed, within what Bernanke and others have said is their inflation "comfort zone" of 1% to 2%.
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Number formats are generally not synchronized. It is recommended to create separate format instances for each thread.
I want to obtain an instance to use in my objects. One instance per thread, or one instance per Object (objects are not shared among threads). At the moment the object has an instance variable containing NumberFormat.
private NumberFormat nFormat = NumberFormat.getInstance(Locale.ITALY);
This is already fine, I shouldn't have any race condition, since Objects are not shared.
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