Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flying 38 missions in Korea, Marine Captain Ted Williams, 35, on military leave from his $100,000-a-year job with the Boston Red Sox, was ordered back to the U.S. In order, Panther-Jet Pilot Williams is expected to receive 1) treatment for a stubborn ear-and-nose ailment, 2) his release from service. Baseball? Says Ted: "It [will] be one tough struggle to get back into shape...
Died. Lillian Lamont MacMurray, 45, wife of Cinemactor Fred MacMurray, 44, (Double Indemnity); of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Press Gallery, a few minutes later, a statement from Taft's office alerted reporters to the whispered news: the Senator's hip ailment was serious, and Taft, at 63, was stepping down as majority leader for the rest of the session, turning over the Senate's helm and acting leadership to Knowiand. Other Senators, drifting into the chamber, were unaware of the momentous change until the news began to tick in on the Marble Room teletypes. Newsmen, hurrying down to the Senate floor again, asked Taft to meet them in the President's Room...
Died. Andrew Jackson IV, 66, great-grandson of the 7th President of the U.S.; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Born in the Hermitage, near Nashville, Jackson took turns at soldiering (World War I), high-school teaching, farming, wound up as a Hollywood character actor, played a U.S. Senator in The President's Lady (TIME...
Died. Walter Brookins, 64, earliest of U.S. aviation's surviving Early Birds; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A boyhood neighbor of Wilbur and Orville Wright in Dayton. Ohio, he became their first pupil, soloed after 2½ hours' instruction, taught scores of American pilots to fly, including the late General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold. Retiring in 1919, he began manufacturing aircraft parts, helped in the development of World War II's 6-24 Liberator bomber...