Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Walter Edward ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, 78, legendary California prospector-fraud; of a gastrointestinal ailment; at Scotty's Corner, Nev. Scotty first made headlines in 1905 when he rode into Los Angeles flourishing a fat roll of $500 bills, reported that he had just found a fabulously rich Death Valley gold mine, hired a special train to take him to Chicago, and jovially flung $100 tips to the crew. Thereafter he was a Sunday supplement standby. Revelling in his own publicity, he lived in a $2,000,000 Moorish castle in Death Valley, once rode through the streets...
Died. Monnett Bain Davis, 60, veteran foreign-service officer, U.S. Ambassador to Israel since 1951, onetime Ambassador to Panama (1948-51); of a heart ailment; in Tel Aviv...
Died. Jorge Negrete, 42, top-drawer singing star of Mexican cowboy films and one of Latin America's favorite cinemactors, fourth husband (since last year) of Mexico's tempestuous Movie Queen Maria Felix; of a liver ailment; in Hollywood. As Mexicans openly mourned Film Idol Negrete's death, his widow declared "unsuitable" a two-engined transport plane sent by Mexico's President Ruiz Cortines to bring his body home from Los Angeles, instead chartered a four-engined American Airlines DC-6, planned an elaborate public funeral in Mexico City...
...Neill died of bronchial pneumonia. He had been ill with Parkinson's disease, an ailment which causes a form of palsy, and was unable to write for several years...
Cochran has been twice side-lined with the fracture and refracture of a leg bone. He suffered the original injury in preseason practice, and has not seen game action this season. Popell was benched with an ailment described as "over-fatigue...