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...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...
Died. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, 69, Harvard-educated authority on Russian drama, grandson of Poet Longfellow and Author Richard Henry Dana (Two Years Before the Mast); of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. He was fired from the Columbia faculty in 1917 for pacifism, barred from England in 1932 for pro-Communist activities...
Died. William A. Alexander, 60, athletic director and for 25 years head football coach at Georgia Tech; of a heart ailment; in Atlanta. A wily, diagraming tactician, Bill Alexander depended on a polished, whippet-lean squad to bring him 135 victories (95 defeats), five Bowl games, of which Tech won three...
...officers examined military personnel and laborers who had been working with DDT for as much as five years. In no case did they find an ailment traceable to DDT. To make doubly sure, they analyzed body fat from 16 men who had been exposed constantly to DDT. Though the insecticide tends to concentrate in fatty tissues, they found none of it in their samples...
Died. Andrew Ponzi, 46, flashy wizard of the pool tables, three-time world pocket billiard champion (1935, '40, '43); of a heart ailment; in Philadelphia. Born Andrew D'Alessandro, he earned the lasting nickname "Ponzi" after "Get Rich Quick" Charles Ponzi, the Boston swindler, by nervily taking all challenges, habitually winning his bets...