Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Frederick Chase Taylor (Colonel Lemuel Q.-"People have more fun than anybody"-Stoopnagle), 52, famed comic of radio, vaudeville and screen; of a heart ailment; in Boston. As a continuity writer for a Buffalo radio station, the Colonel teamed up in 1930 with Announcer Budd Hulick to become the addlepated team of Stoopnagle and Budd...
Died. Aurelio Miró Quesada, 73, editor of Peru's outstanding daily, El Comercio, and head of the powerful Miró Quesada family, one of the three most important in Peru; of a heart ailment; in Lima...
...your X-ray study of the Voice of America, your physician-reporters have diagnosed the Voice's ailment perfectly: "What the Voice needs above all is not more money or more memoranda from Washington, but simply better writing, sharper thinking, and plenty of blue pencils to cut the dull stretches...
...living. Where several organs are shared, surgery is impossible. In simpler cases the twins are often in circuses, dependent on their deformity for a living, and refuse the operation. In 1925, Dr. Hillard Herman Holm of Glencoe, Minn, successfully separated twin girls. One died at twelve, of a heart ailment; one is still living and well. But each successful operation has been matched by one or more failures...
...speech for greed. But modern medical science has found truth as well as poetry in his lines. The cause of the malady, doctors now believe, is not water, but sodium, which prompts the body to hoard water in abnormal amounts - usually as the result of a heart or kidney ailment...