| Aug-19-13 | | DoctorD: The 1932-33 Southern California championship was won by George Patterson. 2nd place went to Dr. Robert B. Griffith. http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/... |
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Feb-24-17
 | | MissScarlett: Herman Steiner chess column, <Los Angeles Times>, June 13th, 1937. p.20: <It is with a deep feeling of personal loss that we mourn the untimely passing of Dr. Robert B. Griffith, a man whose outstanding accomplishments in so many phases of human endeavor will remain a monument to all who were fortunate to know him. Dr. Griffith was a noted chess player, having at one time won games from such well-known players as Dr Emanuel Lasker, H. Pillsbury, Maj. Hannan and many others. He retired from chess for a period of twenty years to devote himself to the noble calling of medicine, and was known as a great plastic surgeon. With his passing we can only bow our heads in reverence for a man whom we were proud to call "a friend."> |
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Jun-08-17
| | MissScarlett: The Arizona Republican, August 12th 1927, p.2:
<Actor's $100,000 Suit For Mangled Nose Ruled Out (United Press Transcontinental Wire)
LOS ANGELES, Aug.11. - Holding no evidence of negligence on the part of the defendant had been shown, Superior Judge Fenney today ordered a non-suit in the $100,000 damage action William H. Scott motion picture actor, brought against Dr. R. B. Griffith, plastic surgeon. Scott claimed the defendant had operated on his nose and had mangled it to such an extent that he was no longer able to get film work.> William Scott: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0779914/ |
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| Jun-08-17 | | ChessHigherCat: Which proves that little progress has been made since the 14th Century: On Easter Day, 1335, some students of the university, who had passed the night of the anniversary of the resurrection of our Saviour in drinking, left the table half intoxicated, and ran about the town during the hours of service, beating pans and cauldrons, and making such a noise and disturbance, that the indignant preachers were obliged to stop in the middle of their discourses, and claimed the intervention of the municipal authorities of Toulouse. One of these, the lord of Gaure, went out of church with five sergeants, and tried himself to arrest the most turbulent of the band. But as he was seizing him by the body, one of his comrades gave the lord a blow with a dagger, which cut off his nose, lips, and part of his chin. This occurrence aroused the whole town. Toulouse had been insulted in the person of its first magistrate, and claimed vengeance. The author of the deed, named Aimeri de Bérenger, was seized, judged, condemned, and beheaded, and his body was suspended on the spikes of the Château Narbonnais. Toulouse had to pay dearly for the respect shown to its municipal dignity. The parents of the student presented a petition to the King against the city, for having dared to execute a noble and to hang his body on a gibbet, in opposition to the sacred right which this noble had of appealing to the judgment of his peers. The Parliament of Paris finally decided the matter with the inflexible partiality to the rights of rank, and confiscated all the goods of the inhabitants, forced the principal magistrates to go on their knees before the house of Aimeri de Bérenger, and ask pardon; themselves to take down the body of the victim, and to have it publicly and honourably buried in the burial-ground of the Daurade. Such was the sentence and humiliation to which one of the first towns of the south was subjected, for having practised immediate justice on a noble, whilst it would certainly have suffered no vindication, if the culprit condemned to death had belonged to the middle or lower orders.
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Aug-11-17
| | MissScarlett: The Sunday Times (New Brunswick, N.J.), December 22nd 1929, p.19: <LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 21. -- Dorothy Higgins, New York stage player, filed suit here today for $5,000 against Dr. Robert B. Griffith, plastic surgeon, alleging an operation he performed on her nose to make it photograph well caused it to increase in size and made her voice sound like she had a cold.> |
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Aug-12-17
| | MissScarlett: Los Angeles Times, April 4th 1924, Part II p.8: <If the nose of Mrs. Minnie Chaplin, wife of Syd Chaplin, film star, came from under the surgeon's knife not only disfigured but permanently marred, it was due to her refusal to follow instructions and not to his carelessness and negligence, declared Dr. Robert Griffith, plastic surgeon, in an answer filed yesterday to Mrs. Chaplin's suit for $100,000 damages as a result of the operations.[...]>
Before and after pictures of Mrs. Chaplin's nose can be seen in a feature on plastic surgery in the <Pittsburgh Press>, July 20th 1924. Minnie Chaplin: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152250/ Syd Chaplin, half-brother of Charlie: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152260/ |
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