Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Kurt Alder, 55, German co-winner (with the late University of Kiel Professor Otto Diels) of the 1950 Nobel Prize in chemistry; of a liver ailment; in Cologne, West Germany. The two scientists were honored for discovering in the '20s the diene synthesis of organic compounds, an advance that helped accelerate the development of synthetic dyes, textiles, plastics and rubber...
...Spectatoritis is the nation's No. 1 fitness problem," said Shane MacCarthy, executive director of the President's Council on Youth Fitness. "I was at a recruiting station recently, and the doctors there told me they've detected a new ailment-heel fractures among soldiers learning to march. They haven't used their legs enough to be ready for the exercise they get in basic training. We do too much sitting and looking when we should be out doing...
John and Frances Gunther's first brush with death came in 1929, when their only daughter Judy died at four months of a glandular ailment. In April 1946 they learned that their only son, then 16, had a brain tumor. For 15 months Johnny, a lively, charming youngster, clung heroically to life and sanity. Though Frances (who now lives in Jerusalem) had divorced Gunther in 1944, they fought an agonizing side-by-side battle for Johnny's life. In desperation they consulted more than 30 doctors, tried such extreme treatments as intravenous mustard-gas injections, which had never...
...woman (Lauren Bacall) in this picture is very competent indeed, and when she discovers that she is going to die of a heart ailment, she calmly begins to arrange her husband's domestic future for him. Naturally she does not tell him about her condition-men are such babies...
Died. Charles Langbridge Morgan, 64, English author of mystic-tinged novels (The Fountain, Sparkenbroke) and plays (The River Line, The Burning Glass), essayist (Liberties of the Mind) and longtime London Times drama critic (1926-39); of a bronchial ailment; in London...