Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, 62, beauteous, dark-haired sister of the late King Carol II of Rumania, and onetime (1922-35) Queen of Greece; of a heart ailment, a month after she adopted the Marquis Marc de Savrat, her handsome, 33-year-old French equerry, gave him her family name of Hohenzollern; in Cannes, France. Elizabeth married the Greek Crown Prince in 1921, shared the throne with him when he became King George II of Greece (September 1922), fled to Rumania in exile when the late George was ousted after 15 months, rocked the Balkans by charging unfaithfulness...
...Algeri three years ago (TIME, March 16, 1953). In Europe she has appeared before both opera and concert audiences from Stockholm to Mi lan. While studying in Paris she met her husband, a Spanish journalist named Luis Rodriguez, lost him 14 months later (he died of a liver ailment), two days before she was to sing a command performance of Le Cog d'Or at London's Covent Garden. She went on (as the Queen of Shema-khan) despite the tragedy, now thinks "singing helped...
...victory without obstacles. Candidate Eisenhower had to come back from a heart attack and prove to himself and the people that he was again well enough to assume the full burdens of the presidency. Then he had to confront another opponent in the form of an ailment that few Americans could identify or spell - ileitis. But he defeated both, and his health was never an important issue in the campaign. One big reason: everywhere he went, the people saw a picture of good, vigorous, glowing health...
...doctor's waiting room in rural England is taking the place once occupied by the vicarage, says British Journalist Ronald Duncan in Punch. "As any doctor will now confirm, at least 20% of his patients are not suffering from any physical ailment whatever. These people go regularly to the doctor on any excuse, but the reason for their attendance in the congregation within the waiting room is that they are seeking from the doctor the sort of spiritual comfort and personal guidance which, a few generations ago, they used to obtain from the priest...
Martin as chief engineer (1915); of a heart ailment, a month after he retired as president, became board chairman of Bell Aircraft Co.; in Buffalo. Larry Bell helped develop an early "bomber" before joining Martin (converted from a Martin exhibition plane, stocked with dynamite-filled gas pipes and sold to Pancho Villa), by 1935 had launched his own firm (estimated 1956 sales: $200 million). Planemaker Bell in 1944 produced the U.S.'s first jet fighter, the Airacomet, made helicopters, missiles and the famed X-1 and X-2 rocket planes, which have broken all speed, altitude records...