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...tenant farmer in Jefferson County was unable, because of old age and illness, to work out his crop. A physician prescribed for his ailment, but the man could not buy the medicine, and no relief agency would supply it. A four-year-old girl in the family died at the end of the year of anemia. The tenant moved several miles away to another farm, but after several weeks the landowner decided that he was too old and ill to work a crop on a tenant-farmer basis, or on any other basis, and he was evicted...
Died, Jay Gould, 45, grandson of Railman Jay Gould, winner of U. S. court tennis championships from 1906 to 1926, 19 times doubles champion (with W. C. Wright, W. H. Tevis Huhn, Joseph Walker Wear); of a throat ailment; in Margaretville...
Died. George Bistany, 45, famed animalcatcher, superintendent of San Francisco's Zoo; of high blood pressure, a kidney ailment and grief; in San Francisco. Last November the Zoo's prize orangutan "Ginger" died of poison. Its keeper, Jack Bamberger, promptly took to his bed, died two days later of a heart ailment and grief. Superintendent Bistany, who credited "Ginger" with having saved his life when he was attacked by another ape, also fell ill. Explained he: "I don't know what happened to me. Ginger was my friend. He could lick 30 men." Two days after Bistany...
...rich bravura part, Miss Bankhead impersonates a dashing, devil-may-care sportswoman named Judith Traherne. Thoroughly rebellious, she is taken to see Dr. Steele (Earle Larimore of the Theatre Guild), a brain specialist, by her family physician who is unable to diagnose an obscure ailment of which she is as intolerant as she is afraid. Dr. Steele, about to move to Vermont and settle down to general practice, has the unhappy task of discovering that the young woman has a brain tumor which will kill her in ten months...
...weariness of the heart and a grievous ailment of the stomach. If I did not know how little that editorial page has come to mean to the citizens of this district, I might feel desperate about it. As it is, it is a mistake to dignify that stewing pot by mentioning...