Word: ailments
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Died. Admiral Count Luigi Rizzo di Grado, 63, one of Italy's most renowned naval heroes of World War I (only holder of two Medaglie d'Oro, highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...
Died. Dr. Harry Watson Martin, 61, since 1937 medical director of 20th Century-Fox Studios, husband of famed Hollywood Gossip Columnist Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons in one of the film colony's happiest marriages; of an undiagnosed ailment contracted while on South Pacific duty in World War II with the Army Medical Corps; in Hollywood...
...time it was speculated that Margarita was slated to replace backfield coach Josh Williams, who was suffering from a heart ailment. But Williams has since recovered and returned to his job, giving the College a seven-man staff consisting of Jordan, Margarita, Lamar, Williams, line coach Ted Schmitt, end coach Joe Maras, and jayvee coach Norm Shepard...
...commission seemed to feel that the ailment had been picked up largely from a lack of Canadian resistance to low-grade U.S. cultural germs such as soap operas, Hollywood banalities, pulp magazines and other commercialized peddling to mass tastes. Canada, the commissioners conceded, has gained much from the U.S. in higher culture (e.g., symphony broadcasts, Guggenheim fellowships, the better magazines, etc.). The question is whether she has gained too much for her own good...
Died. John Erskine, 71, professor of English literature at Columbia University (1909-37), novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy), concert pianist, music educator (president of Manhattan's Juilliard School, 1928-37); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Starting on a novelist's career at the age of 46, he scored an immediate success with Helen, thereafter wrote 18 more novels in the same mold, using figures from legend and history (Galahad, Adam & Eve, Francois Villon, Venus) to satirize 20th Century manners & morals. At the end he was still writing his streamlined version of Chaucer...