Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their mastery of the situation, the quiz producers seem helpless before the major ailment afflicting their shows. The sum of $64.000 no longer inspires audience awe. Viewers have become so blase that the producers arbitrarily changed their rules to enable Schoolboy Strom to win as much as $256,000, and devised new rules to let Clerk Nadler keep winning too. More important, a kind of inflation has also hit the contestants: instead of the kind of ordinary people who struck a responsive chord in viewers, they now run to narrow specialists and photographic minds-"freaks," as the trade calls them...
Died. Dr. William Milton Adams Sr., 51, internationally known plastic surgeon, onetime (1953-54) president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; of a heart ailment; in Memphis...
...although denied official permission to join his wife Gertrude at the national leprosarium at Carville, La., lived in a cottage on the hospital grounds until she was cured (TIME. Sept. 26, 1949), then joined her in a campaign of education about Hansen's disease; of a heart ailment; in New York City...
Died. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sáenz, 76, terrible-tempered, medieval-minded Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seville, who damned and damped down the gay traditional dances of his fun-loving people, banned their movies, shuttered their nightclubs; of a kidney ailment; in Madrid. His denunciation of Protestantism, and even of Franco's limited religious tolerance ("It causes one real pain to see the tolerance shown toward non-Catholic sects . . .") made him almost as unpopular with many of his fellow Catholics as with Protestants, eventually (1955) caused his diocesan duties to be shifted by the Vatican, in consultation with...
Letting the rest of the world go by, Britain's ex-Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and wife Clarissa basked on the sunny strand of New Zealand's subtropic Otehei Bay, a favorite operating base for deep-sea fishermen. Eden, still bedded periodically by his gall-bladder ailment, left Britain in mid-January...