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...lasted some 45 min. All other patients were moved from the third floor of the wing where Mr. Ford lay. The fact behind a fond Ford boast, "I have never been sick a day in my life," was counted on to speed his recovery. Henry Ford's last ailment: a sprained back in 1927, suffered when the Ford car he was driving through Dearborn was forced off the road, down an embankment...
Comparatively inactive in Curtis Publishing Co., snowy-bearded Publisher Curtis, 82, became more quiescent following the death of his wife last May (TIME, June 6). He, too, suffers from a heart ailment. Although he did take himself to Joseph Early Widener's "millionaire dinner" last month (TIME, Oct. 24) he spends most of his time aboard the Lyndonia, much of his shore time at the Downtown Club, which he helped to found, in his own Philadelphia Public Ledger building. Such small time as Publisher Curtis has for business, he gives to the Curtis-Martin newspapers (Ledgers, Inquirer, New York...
...stood it as long as I could, then I went to the telephone and asked a specialist wrhat might be the matter with the baby. He suggested that I turn her over my knee with her little feet to the fire and pat her back. ... In time, the disturbing ailment in her 'tummy' removed itself and I had a most peaceful infant who finally fell asleep and was put back in her crib, and I rejoined my guests one and one-half hours after their arrival...
Frizzy-haired Eva Tanguay, 54, famed for her oldtime vaudeville singing ("I Don't Care!") was discovered to be destitute, critically ill of Bright's disease, rheumatism and a heart ailment, nearly blind. Since last May she had occupied a small cottage in Hollywood, refusing to let her friends know her plight. When the news spread, Mrs. Lucy Cotton...
Charged with helping her mother, Baroness von Dueben, to commit suicide, Mrs. Else Wille Bang pleaded in Copenhagen that the Baroness was suffering from an incurable ailment, explained that she had given her mother poison in the guise of medicine to put her out of her misery. The trial of Mrs. Bang ended month and a half ago. She was sentenced to only three months in jail. Last week long, lean King Christian X sympathetically reviewed the case of his subject Mrs. Bang, pardoned...