Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Georgia Coleman, 28, blonde, onetime (1932) Olympic champion diver; of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. Her career snipped short by infantile paralysis in 1937, Diver Coleman made a heroic recovery, learned to swim all over again...
Actually, Gehrig never was "felled" by the polio germ. His ailment, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (TIME, March 25), is something quite different, is not communicable. The New York Yankees hurriedly disproved "Doctor" Powers' quack diagnosis by winning six games in a row and moving up to third place in the American League pennant race-only six games behind the league-leading Cleveland Indians. Lou Gehrig's rebuttal was more direct. Saying that he is now "a pariah whom many people shun," honest, earnest Lou Gehrig, who has been practically canonized since retiring from baseball last summer, last week brought...
Died. Arthur Henry Fleming, 84, West Coast lumberman who endowed California Institute of Technology with more than $5,000,000; of a heart ailment; in Pasadena. In 1926 Philanthropist Fleming built a pavilion to preserve the historic railroad car 24190, in which armistices for World War I and the surrender of France in World War II were signed...
...common ailment of U. S. and British soldiers during World War I was trench mouth, or Vincent's angina. No laughing matter, trench mouth is a painful, sometimes fatal disease, spread by relatives of the syphilis spirochete, which first invade the gums, may later migrate to tonsils, salivary glands and lungs. Trench mouth is most prevalent in summertime when campers use common utensils and cups. To kill the trench mouth spirochete, doctors usually swab their patients' swollen gums with hydrogen peroxide, silver salts or arsphenamine, prescribe mouthwashes of sodium perborate. But such treatment usually lasts for many weeks...
Died. Patrick McKenna, 65, bald, bespectacled White House doorkeeper; 37 years to the day after he started ushering during the Theodore Roosevelt Administration ; of a kidney ailment; in Washington...