Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Henry Parish, 82, vice president of the Bank of New York, family friend of the Franklin D. Roosevelts; of a heart ailment; in Llewellyn Park, N.J. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married in his Manhattan house. His widow, Susan Ludlow Parish, is Eleanor Roosevelt's second cousin and godmother...
Died. Dr. Harold George Campbell, 58, New York City's superintendent of schools since 1934; of a circulatory ailment; in Manhattan...
Died. Bernard ("Bunny") Berigan, 33, veteran trumpet virtuoso, topnotch tooter of the jazz and swing eras; of an intestinal ailment aggravated by trumpeting; in Manhattan. He began as a boy musician, appeared with name bands when he was 18, soloed with Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, organized his own band...
Betty Grable, in a Hollywood hospital for the second time in a week, after overexerting herself dancing, was operated on "for correction of a side ailment...
Died. The Very Rev. Dr. Ze Barney Thorne Phillips, 67, dean of Washington Cathedral, chaplain of the U.S. Senate; of a heart attack following a kidney ailment; in Washington. He had opened Senate sessions with prayer since 1927. Till 1939 he officiated (at $1,680 a year) only at the beginning of "legislative days"-such a "day" sometimes lasted 100 days. In 1938 he officiated only four times. Since then he has prayed at the opening on each calendar...