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...another returning letterman hurler, broke his wrist playing intramural basketball and has been dropped from the roster. Losing its two big guns would be bad enough, but the Crimson will probably have to do without the services of sophomore star George Lalich, who is suffering from a chronic arm ailment...
...Morgenthau, who died last week at 75 of a lifelong heart ailment and a kidney condition, the only appraisals that really mattered came from the man he revered, and occasionally preached at. And to F.D.R., the tall, dour gentleman-farmer who peered frostily at the world through pince-nez was sometimes "Henry the Morgue," but also "one of two of a kind"-the other being Roosevelt himself. Eleanor referred to him as "Franklin's conscience." In exchange, Morgenthau was the only Cabinet member to address the President regularly as "Franklin...
...shirt boxes. Once it lost $125,000 in business when a list of 40,000 would-be customers was mistakenly destroyed. Under a garish, multicolored letterhead, its owner once answered a formal appointment request by advising "I am personally away more or less." When he died of a heart ailment during a Florida vacation last week at 94, L. L. (for Leon Leonwood) Bean left a $4,000,000-a-year backwoods bonanza that could have been far bigger had he ever branched beyond tiny (pop. 4,000) Freeport, Me. But Bean liked his sportsman's supply business...
...hours on the stand, he bolstered his case with cool, quiet testimony that Keuper could not shake. Coppolino admitted his affair with Mrs. Farber, but insisted that he was a conscientious physician to Farber on the day he died-giving him proper treatment for a sudden heart ailment, pleading in vain that he go to a hospital. Neatly dressed in a dark suit, as professional in his manner as a medical-school lecturer, Coppolino even turned to the jury to give an onomatopoetic description of how irregular William Farber's heart had sounded...
Belated Sweep. Temperatures climbed -Manhattan experienced a record 64° -as the bowl of stagnant air roofed the region. A scattering of New York hospitals reported an increase in lung-ailment complaints. Finally, with weather forecasts indicating no relief, officials called a first-stage smog alert* in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut...