Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Little strokes, a heart attack, cancer. Rumors of these illnesses-and worries about how they would affect his fitness for office-hovered around Franklin Delano Roosevelt as early as 1936. By 1944, when he was 62 and running for an unprecedented fourth term as President, the rumors had become persistent. Vice Admiral Ross McIntire, Roosevelt's personal physician, insisted during the campaign that the President was in "excellent condition for a man of his age." But on April 12, 1945, less than three months after his fourth Inauguration, F.D.R. died...
Unfortunately, the play consists mostly of such clumsy commentary. It's got only three characters: Henny (mother), Scooper (son), and Dierdre (bibliophile cum girlfriend). 83 and blind, Henny, has battled breast cancer for two years without anybody catching on--hence bosoms and neglect. Scooper, never too lucky with the girls, was about to run off to Haiti with his best friend's wife when Mom's illness was uncovered. He met Dierdre through their common analyst, Dr. James. In her apartment, while Henny's on the operating table, they spill out their tribulations and prayers. Their idiocyncrasies, it seems, know...
...hospital where he and his mother spend an hour and a half rehashing their unimaginative pasts, their guilt, their dreams. He even has a Rosebud--as a baby, his mother used him to cudgel a fellow who rejected her. Hence her numerous suicide attempts; hence her neglect of her cancer...
DIED. Joyce Grenfell, 69, lanky, toothy British comedienne known for her hilarious one-woman shows and film portrayals of such dotty spinsters as the policewoman who poses as a girls' school sports mistress in the 1954 farce The Belles of St. Trinian 's; of cancer; in London...
DIED. Herbert ("Zeppo") Marx, 78, last of the madcap Marx brothers; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. The youngest Marx was pulled out of high school to replace his brother Gummo, who left the family vaudeville team before it moved to Hollywood. Cast as the straight man, Zeppo joined Chico (who died in 1961), Harpo (1964) and Groucho (1977) in five classic films, but he tired of his role and left the group after the release of Duck Soup in 1933. "He was a lousy actor," grouched Groucho, "and he got out as soon as he could." But Zeppo...