Word: bethesda
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There was one overpowering thought that Bridget McCarthy drove home to her seven children. "Man was born to do something," she told them time and again in the McCarthy farm home near Appleton, Wis. Last week, in the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., her fifth-born, Joseph Raymond McCarthy, overtaken by cirrhosis of the liver, received the last rites of his Roman Catholic faith and a scant 62 minutes later died at 48. It was clear from the headlines that rang around the world that Joe McCarthy had indeed done something...
...term junior senator from Wisconsin, whose activities as chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation gave the word "McCarthyism" to the American vocabulary, died at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington, D.C. Since his 1954 censure by the Senate, he had frequented the hospital with sinus trouble, bursitis, and a knee injury...
Yale's versatile Tim Jecko of Bethesda, Md. pushed the Elis into an early lead with victories in the 200-yd. butterfly and 200-yd. individual medley. Splashing along, just off the pace, Michigan scored heavily in low-board diving and stayed within easy reach. Of the other threats, Indiana and Michigan State tarried behind in a tight scrap for third, and Ohio State, last year's champion, was out of it entirely. The Buckeye team was dry-docked by N.C.A.A. punishment for overenthusiastic football recruiting...
...president of the Social Relations Society is Richard P. Zimon '58 of Kirkland House and Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Elected to the vice-presidency was Paul W. Shinkman '58 of Eliot House and Bethesda, Maryland. William H. Fritsche '59 of Kirkland House and New Ulm, Minnesota was elected to the office of secretary, and the Society's new treasurer is John W. Aldrich '58 of Adams House and Cambridge, Mass...
...hospital after breaking her left ankle in a stairway fall at home; cinema Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart, 58, slowly mending from throat cancer surgery last March despite weight loss (he now scales 120 lbs. v. his normal 150); Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, 47, out of Bethesda Naval Hospital in time to attend the opening of Congress, recovered from further surgery on the site of an operation he underwent last summer for removal of a tumor in his right...