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...custard pie go unthrown and grew rich, together with Straight Man "Ole" Olsen (currently touring in Europe), by endlessly repeating their zany show, Hellzapoppin, a unique blend of slapstick and what O & J christened "gonk," which they defined as "hokum with raisins in it"; of a kidney ailment; in Las Vegas...
...members of the officers' junta that overthrew King Farouk, a flamboyant opportunist who won international notoriety in 1953 as "the Dancing Major" when he was photographed dancing in his undershorts with Sudanese tribesmen during an abortive effort to persuade the Sudan to unite with Egypt; of a kidney ailment; in Cairo...
When he is on the attack, which is most of the time, Menon's expression is ferretlike. Brain surgery last October for a blood clot deprived him of his elaborately curled silver locks, making his looks even fiercer. Though he has no known history of any leg ailment, he constantly brandishes a cane as if it were a weapon. A teetotaler and vegetarian, Menon, 64, dresses with Savile Row impeccability at the U.N.; at home in India, he wears a loose-fitting, collarless jibbah in which, says one Western observer, "he looks like Boris Karloff playing John the Baptist...
Last summer, after a lung ailment that preceded his heart attack. Styles Bridges was visited in his hospital room by a reporter bearing a bottle of Scotch. "You know," he said, "I'll be back next session, but by golly, I'm going to take it a little easy." Among his Senate colleagues, Styles Bridges was respected as one whose political word was his bond-but this was a promise he could not keep...
Died. Clem Whitaker Sr., 62, lanky, white-maned California public relations operator who, with his pretty wife Leone Baxter, injected P.R. razzle-dazzle into U.S. politics to a previously unmatched degree; of a respiratory ailment; in San Francisco. Insisting that they promoted only what they believed in, Whitaker & Baxter were on the winning side of all but a handful of the 85 political campaigns they handled, helped vault Earl Warren and Goodie Knight into California's gubernatorial mansion, ran the National Professional Committee for Eisenhower and Nixon in 1952 "to rally the people against the dangers of socialism...