Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Val (Vladimir) Lewton, 46, Russian-born producer of high-grade, low-budget movies (Bedlam, The Body Snatcher, The Cat People) ; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood...
Another useful ploy for the patient "consists of playing on Doctor's fear of seeming [to claim] medical qualifications which he does not in fact possess." Suppose, for example, the doctor suggests that some ailment may be psychological in origin. "Oh, Doctor," the patient may reply, "I had no idea that was one of your subjects. I've always wanted a good psychotherapist." Follow up the advantage promptly, urges Potter: "Refuse to take in the doctor's worried assurance that he is not a trained psychiatrist. Make it appear that you are going to tell your friends...
...British-born concert pianist, who made his debut at nine as a violinist, switched to the piano at 20, became a U.S. citizen in 1921, made world concert tours for half a century, then retired and wrote about them in Harold Bauer: His Book (1948); of a heart ailment; in Miami...
...doctor of the Ceylon Star, a man who finds the sea a sanctuary and goes ashore as little as possible. Varga's trouble begins when the governor of Port Aarif, a lecherous old tyrant named El Bekkaa, comes aboard and insists that he be treated for an ailment that turns out, on diagnosis, to be cancer...
Died. Alfred Grunwald, 67, Vienna-born librettist, collaborator with Franz Lehar and Emmerich (Countess Maritza) Kalman of a heart ailment; in New York City...