Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Walter Donaldson, 54, Brooklyn-born composer whose Mammy and My Blue Heaven made him one of the brightest of Tin Pan Alley's neon lights; of a liver ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Writer's cramp is an ailment that has puzzled doctors for more than a century, and it continues to baffle them. The victim of writer's cramp is seized by a strange kind of palsy. He may be able to play the piano or balance a teacup, but as soon as he tries to write, his fingers begin to stutter. Some doctors think that the cramp is an occupational disease brought on by too much writing. They prescribe 1) a long rest from writing, or 2) a change of occupation...
Died. Lucius Boomer, 68, boss of Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria; of a heart ailment; in Hamar, Norway, where he was vacationing (see BUSINESS...
Died. Jim Tully, 56, onetime pug, hobo and successful writer (during the '20s) of high-flavored, aggressively crude novels (Shanty Irish, Jarnegan, Beggars of Life); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles...
Died. Herman Darewski, 64, Russian-born British composer whose K-K-K-Katy was stuttered by millions during World War I, onetime piano teacher to Princess Elizabeth; of a heart ailment; in London...