Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much more research and many more carefully stained slides will be needed before doctors find a clue to the cure of eclampsia. But a clue to the cause is a big start. Eclampsia is such a mysterious ailment that it has baffled doctors for 4,000 years and has been nicknamed the "disease of theories...
Died. Charles B. Moran, 70, longtime (1916-39) National League baseball umpire ("It ain't nothing until I call it"); of a heart ailment; in Horse Cave, Ky. A onetime big-league ballplayer (he pitched and caught for the Cardinals, 1903-08), colorful, rasp-voiced "Uncle Charley" spent his off-seasons coaching football (his Centre College, Ky. eleven beat Harvard's great 1921 grid team 6-0-), helped develop Centre's famed "Bo" McMillin...
...dress "Trooping the Color" to be held since 1939. Footguardsmen of the Welsh Guards donned scarlet tunics and towering bearskins, to stand at rigid attention. They were joined by plumed horsemen of the Household Cavalry. To take the salute, the King himself, not yet sufficiently recovered from his leg ailment to ride horseback, drove over from Buckingham Palace in an open carriage, closely followed by the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Elizabeth, sidesaddle on her chestnut gelding Winston...
Self-conscious adolescents and worried parents know that a bad case of acne can cause more misery than many a more painful ailment; it can also end in serious psychological damage. Youthful victims are easy prey to misconceptions about acne, sometimes worry themselves into trying quack cures...
Died. Robert LeRoy Ripley, 55, world-famed cartoonist, who parlayed a sports cartoon. Believe It or Not, into a fabulously wealthy career in journalism, book writing, show business, radio, cinema and television; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...