Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sinclair Lewis, 65, novelist; first U.S. author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; of a heart ailment; in Rome...
...offered the most dramatic evidence to date of the powers of the new drug. Though cautious in prediction as always, doctors studying Gaines's recovery -together with that of several badly burned children-seemed inclined to agree that ACTH (which has been hopefully tried out on virtually every ailment from tuberculosis to snakebite) might prove a potent cure for burns...
Died. Billy B. Van,* 80, palavering onetime vaudeville comic, who toured with Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, retired 25 years ago to manufacture soap, plugged chewing gum on the radio, emerged from retirement last year to play in Mae West's Diamond Lil; of a heart ailment; in Newport...
...announcement from NBC stated simply that "the return of Arturo Toscanini to the podium . . . has been postponed by the maestro." A year ago he had slipped in his bathtub and hurt his knee; this season, said the announcement, there had been a recurrence of the ailment. Fritz Reiner would conduct the first three concerts, beginning this week, and Toscanini's plans for the new season would be announced "at a later date...
Died. Dr. Fritz Wittels, 69, Vienna-born psychoanalyst, disciple of Sigmund Freud; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. After clashing with the master in the '20s ("It is difficult to live in the shadow of a great genius"), Wittels recanted, wrote a eulogistic biography (Freud and His Time...