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...with a skillful guerrilla war during the German occupation of Greece (as head of EDES-National Democratic Army), for which he received Britain's Order of the British Empire, later was credited with rounding up 17,000 Communists in Greece's postwar civil strife; of a heart ailment; in Athens, where his elder brother, Merchant Alex Zervas, collapsed and died after seeing his body...
...years ago, he told the court, one of his wives came down with a nervous ailment, and when doctors failed to help her, Barzilai bethought himself of a miracle-working Yemenite rabbi whom he had heard of in nearby Akir. Barzilai went to see him and was at once impressed. Rabbi Barti held a sheet of blank paper over the kerosene stove, and slowly there appeared a message on it signed by the Angels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. A talisman to cure Barzilai's wife would be found on the rabbi's roof, said the angel...
...Francis Burton Harrison, 83, onetime (1903-05, 1907-13) U.S. Representative from New York, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippines, who strongly advocated a Philippine republic, was the first American to become a naturalized Filipino (1936), became known as the "grandfather" of Philippine independence; of a heart ailment; in Flemington...
Although the recent ailment of the President should prove disastrous to neither the nation nor the President, it has severely complicated an already difficult and dangerous situation. At the present time, and for the past few years, there has been an exasperatingly obvious need for Presidential leadership of the strongest and most active type. This nation's foreign relations, military preparedness, economic development, educational levels, and scientific activities need the firm leadership which can be provided only from the highest governmental levels. The President's latest attack will probably make it still more difficult for him to devote even...
Hateful Word. The son of an obscure Hamburg book publisher, Publisher Springer sat out World War II with a respiratory ailment and at war's end was among the first Germans to win an Allied license to start a magazine. With profits from Hör zu! he launched Hamburger Abendblatt, his first daily, in 1948, and five years later won out over 16 other bidders when the British decided to sell their occupation paper Die Welt (for an estimated...