Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lloyd C. (for Cassel) Douglas. 73, novelist; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. At 52, Lutheran Minister Douglas began a fifth collection of essays which somehow wound up as a novel. Magnificent Obsession, a fictionalized tribute to good works, sold nearly 700,000 copies its first year. After a second bestseller (Forgive Us Our Trespasses), Douglas left the pulpit, concentrated on his "nationwide parish of novel readers," who deluged him with letters of thanks for the comfort they found in his eleven novels, including The Robe, The Big Fisherman. He was always frankly "more concerned with healing bruised...
Merrill R. Paterson, Marietta dean, told Judge Louis L. Green, of the East District Court, that he would not have come the distance with a serious throat ailment, if he wasn't convinced the 22 charges of larceny, forgery, and altering levelled against Knaus in court, were false. Knaus was formerly a Marietta student...
After attending Holy Year ceremonies, Thomas Cardinal Tien, 60, Archbishop of Peking and the first Chinese to be elevated to cardinal, arrived in Manhattan on his way to a Cincinnati hospital for treatment of an eye ailment and a heart condition.* With the aid of an interpreter, he told reporters that he was seriously worried about the uncertain future of the 12,000 priests and nuns in Red China of whom 11,000 are Chinese...
Britain's Fabian Society, the little core of intellectuals who began back in 1884 to preach the inevitability of socialism without revolution, finally got around to choosing a new president. The choice: Sir Stafford Cripps, now in Switzerland un der treatment for a spinal ailment. He succeeds his aunt, the late Beatrice Webb, the society's first and only other president, who died...
...Bridie (real name: Osborne Henry Mavor), 63, Scottish physician-playwright (Daphne Laureola), who began in middle age writing whimsical plays as a sideline, gave up his medical practice to work full time at it, became one of Britain's leading playwrights (32 plays, ten hits); of a vascular ailment; in Edinburgh...