Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor with a dilemma: "It will do you no good if I get over this," said Shaw. "A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care." When their patient began to suffer from the recurrence of an old kidney ailment, the worried doctors issued a few "toned down" bulletins on his condition. This week he seemed as perky as ever, offered another bit of advice to his doctors. Said the author of Back to Methuselah: "For the first hundred years one should be a student, for the second hundred one should...
Died. Sara Allgood, 66, for a quarter-century one of Dublin's Abbey Players (Juno and the Pay cock), in recent years a Hollywood character actress (How Green Was My Valley); of a heart ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Dublin-born, she became at 18 a member ("the youngest and humblest," she recalled) of the Irish National Theatre Society, a group of patriotic enthusiasts (including Padraic Colum, George Russell, William Butler Yeats) who founded the Abbey Theatre and sparked the Irish Revival. A cinemactress on & off since 1929 (Blackmail, the first British talking picture), she brightened dozens...
...Trust Co., sixth largest U.S. bank (TIME, Sept. n), American Red Cross officer, chairman (1939-41) of the New York World's Fair, sportsman, joiner, booster (he spent more than $300,000 to make his home town of North Conway, N.H. a fancy ski resort); of a heart ailment; in Boston. Gibson started out as a floor-sweeper after his graduation from Bowdoin College, became a bank president at 35. He was general manager of the Red Cross in World War I, its commissioner to Great Britain, then to Western Europe, in World...
Cherington was suffering from a heart ailment and Emerson had a stomach disorder...
...Greek," onetime immigrant dishwasher who struck it rich in Louisiana oil, became a behind-the-scenes power in Louisiana politics (he backed the Longs and their friends, including New Orleans' onetime Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, involved with Helis in 1939's "hot oil" scandals); of a lung ailment; in Baltimore. Helis was a big spender, a big horseman, a sturdy Democrat who contributed liberally to Harry Truman's 1948 campaign...