Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crown's interests-plus the job of looking for new ones-keep him busy, but because of a heart ailment many years ago, he usually gets to bed by 10. To keep in trim, he swims twice a day in the basement pool in his is-room house in Evanston. The Crown mind, however, is always racing with plans for future deals or improvements on past ones. Recently on a visit to the Empire State Building, Crown was amazed to hear that in the previous month the building had taken in $180,000 from sightseers who paid...
...film comeback (The Sign of the Ram) playing the part of a cripple, later toured in stage plays (The Glass Menagerie, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) that could be acted from a wheelchair or a couch. Her doctor gave the "primary cause" of death as a chronic kidney ailment and bronchial pneumonia, added "I felt she had lost the will to live...
After spending two months in a San Francisco hospital, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek arrived in New York City to take further treatment for a skin ailment and to visit with her sister, Mme. H. H. Kung, on Long Island...
Died. Leonard Kimball Nicholson, 71, longtime editor (1922-52) of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and a director (1933-51) of the Associated Press; of a heart ailment; in New Orleans...
Died. Alfred Neumann, 56, German poet (Songs of Laughter and Despair), historical romancer (The Devil, The Patriot, The Gaudy Empire), whose contempt for tyrants and dictators (Louis XI, Paul I, Napoleon III) caused Hitler to banish both him and his works from Germany; of a heart ailment; in Lugano, Switzerland. The Devil, an extraordinary reworking of Quentin Durward into a psychological flesh-creeper, was a bestseller of the late '20s; The Patriot, also a bestseller, was made twice into a movie (first with Emil Jannings, later with Harry Baur...