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Johnson is particularly susceptible to respiratory ailments because of a recurring bronchial weakness first contracted during high-altitude flying in World War II. He developed a scratchy throat and cough. On Friday night-with Lady Bird and Lynda gone, and Luci Baines out on a date-the President was pretty much alone in the White House and, according to aides, feeling a little sorry for himself. The White House physician, Rear Admiral George Burkley, gave him aspirin, some Declomycin and a dose of "the brown mixture," a generation-old cough remedy...
...smoking two packs of cigarettes a day for 25 years, they say, polonium deposited in the bronchial linings may deliver a radiation dose at least seven times the normal radiation exposure of non-smokers. It has been known for many years that ionizing radiation can produce cancer in man, but this report is the first to suggest that radic-isotopes in cigarettes are involved in the production of lung cancer...
...polonium occurs at the burning temperature of the cigarette (1112 to 1472 degrees Fahrenheit), and it is carried into the lungs by attaching itself to the inhaled smoke particles, according to the report's findings. Most of it is eventually taken up by "scavenger cells" and carried over the bronchial lining to the throat...
Died. Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam, 71, U.S. Methodism's champion of liberalism; of bronchial pneumonia; in White Plains, N.Y. (see RELIGION...
...Methodist Church. Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam once hinted, needed both the whirlwind evangelist and the stable, district-bound administrator; for it owed as much to George Whitefield, who "preached and passed," as to John Wesley, who "organized and abided." Methodist Oxnam, who died last week at 71 from bronchial pneumonia,* shared in the qualities of both men. No U.S. Protestant leader of his time preached more ardently about the causes he cared for; few churchmen were his equal at the homely, slighted arts of governing a district or chairing a conference...