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Letting the rest of the world go by, Britain's ex-Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and wife Clarissa basked on the sunny strand of New Zealand's subtropic Otehei Bay, a favorite operating base for deep-sea fishermen. Eden, still bedded periodically by his gall-bladder ailment, left Britain in mid-January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Died. Princess Helen of Greece, 75, formerly Grand Duchess Helen of Russia, granddaughter of Czar Alexander II (1818-81), mother of Britain's Duchess of Kent and widow of Prince Nicholas, third son of King George I of Greece; of a heart ailment; in Athens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

Common Colds & 'Copters With proper punctilio, the presidential physician, Major General Howard Snyder, diagnosed Ike's ailment as not a "cold" at all but a mild case of tracheitis, i.e., inflammation of the windpipe, accompanied by persistent coughing. Ike picked up his trouble, said Snyder, while standing for hours in the brisk and breezy weather of Inauguration Day last month reviewing the inaugural parade. Not even Georgia's warm sunshine had burned it off. As a precautionary measure, Ike slipped off to Walter Reed Army Hospital the day after his TV speech on Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Common Colds & 'Copters | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...within a few months his-brother was struck down by an incurable nervous disease, his mother died, his father went bankrupt, and Christian had to go south to recover from a lung ailment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dictator by Demand | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...redcaps (until 1938 most were paid entirely in tips), formed the International Brotherhood of Red Caps in 1937, brought his union (renamed the United Transport Service Employees) into the C.I.O. in 1942, later (1955) became one of two Negro vice presidents of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; of a kidney ailment; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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