Word: asthma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edward Henry Scudamore Stanhope, 63, twelfth Earl of Chesterfield, who in 1935 succeeded to the title bestowed in 1628 by Charles I; of cardiac asthma; in London. The family name "Chesterfield" survives in the English language, associated with an overcoat, a sofa and an elegant manner. Best known of the Chesterfields: the fourth earl, Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), famed for his letters...
...Boston, 7,500 Christian Scientists gathered for their annual meeting, elected Britain's Lieut. Colonel Robert Ellis Key president of the Mother Church for the coming year. Scientists also heard reports of spiritual healing during the year. Among diseases reported cured by faith: cancer, infantile paralysis, gallstones, asthma, arthritis, nephritis, carious bones, a deformed nose...
...when he talked his father Egbert, sales manager of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), into paying for his lessons. By 16 he had got his private pilot's license, and by the time he graduated from the University of Arizona (he went there for his asthma), he had qualified as a commercial pilot and a flight instructor. He sold Piper Cubs, then formed Piedmont Aviation Inc. to combine plane sales, maintenance, flying instruction and charter service. When World War II broke, he began training Air Force flying instructors and ferry pilots. By war's end Davis...
...loss in 1949 has been in the black ever since. Last year his profits were up 77%, to $144,562. Piedmont has carried 515,695 passengers a total of 115.8 million miles without an injury, and its stock has risen from $1 to $3.50. Moreover, asthma no longer troubles...
...usually linked by a hyphen to the name of Bach, who transcribed a goodly number of Vivaldi's works. Little was known about Venetian Vivaldi himself. The main facts: 1) he was a red-haired priest who had to stop saying Mass because of his choking attacks of asthma, 2) he traveled all over Europe as a violinist, and 3) he was "feeble and sick, yet lively as gunfire...