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...three topnotch medical experts of his own waiting to present rebuttal testimony. They were Neurologists Francis Forster of the University of Wisconsin, Roland Mackay of Northwestern Medical School, and Robert S. Schwab of the Harvard Medical School. Each testified that Ruby's electroencephalograph charts proved no markedly serious ailment in the defendant. When Forster was asked if the graphs supported a diagnosis of psychomotor epilepsy, he retorted: "They would...
...Whitney Psychiatric Clinic for the summer. Hodgins had hardly gotten out when he found himself back in a hospital-this time with a broken hip, the result of a bathroom fall. It proved a lucky break. Although immobile once more, he was suffering at last from a socially approved ailment: a broken hip, he points out, is perfectly respectable, whereas a stroke or a breakdown is "loaded with connotations...
...liberal to Illinois' Goldwater Republicans, no matter how hard he tried to show that he didn't dislike Barry. Then, last week, there came that bit of Percy luck. Carpentier withdrew from the contest on account of illness. Suffering from what he thought was an old stomach ailment, Carpentier entered a hospital, was told that he had had a mild heart attack. Even though State Treasurer William Scott, 37, then jumped into the race, Chuck Percy now was clearly running well ahead...
Arthurian Cocktails. T. H. White, who died last week of a heart ailment at 57, was Merlyn. A blue-eyed, white-bearded six-footer who looked like an antic Elijah, he shared with the magician a hunger for knowledge and a delight in conveying it to others. A complex, lonely, compassionate man, he believed with Merlyn: "The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting...
...Spencer Tracy, 63, in his Los Angeles home, with a continuing respiratory ailment complicated by diabetes; Cincinnati Reds' Manager Fred Hutchinson, 44, in his physician brother's Seattle home, with a malignancy in an undisclosed area; Brendan Behan, 40, in Dublin's Meath Hospital, with pneumonia and head injuries after he was found lying in a pool of blood. He had been out celebrating his exit from the Royal City of Dublin Hospital...