Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Halliday, 67, suave, well-tailored fixture of stage & screen drawing rooms for some 27 years (The Circle, The Spider, Jealousy, Tovarich); of a heart ailment; in Honolulu...
...fashionable theory that glandular disturbances cause fatness, Dr. Bruch told the New York Academy of Medicine, is mostly tommyrot. In a recent study of heavyweights, it was found that fewer than one in 200 had a glandular ailment...
Died. Baron Henri de Rothschild, 75. French financier, physician, philanthropist and viniculturist; of a heart ailment; near Lausanne, Switzerland. Probably the most noteworthy of the Rothschilds, Baron Henri won respect for his work on infants' diseases, on milk as a food, and on the radium treatment of cancer (he set up the famed Pierre Curie Institute for radium research). He also found time to write plays for the Paris stage...
...bill: $500 million. And V.A.'s medical care of most of the veterans of World War II has only begun. In an openhanded mood at the war's end, Congress awarded all veterans, under certain conditions, free hospital care for the rest of their lives for any ailment whatsoever. V.A. estimates that its peak hospital load (if there are no more wars) will not come till...
Died. Will Harbut, 62, longtime groom and constant companion to his great & good friend Man o'War, 30; of a heart ailment; near Lexington, Ky. At Faraway Farm, Harbut showed the horse to nearly 1,000,000 visitors in 16 years, proudly called him "the mostest hoss in the world...