Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a predawn card game with a guard in his Dallas County jail cell, Ruby asked for a glass of water and, when left alone, charged headfirst into a plaster cell wall. He suffered only a two-inch cut and a knot on his skull; moments later, guards found him trying to rip his white jail uniform into strips - presumably to fashion a noose...
...said a Bonn corporate lawyer. Many Germans were jarred, too, by the blunt manner of Goergen's arrest and imprisonment, especially since no charge was filed against him. The uneasiness about how he was being treated was heightened last week when he suffered a heart attack in his cell and was transferred to the prison hospital...
...leukemia. In "mono," several abnormal types of antibody are found at the times when the patient's lymph glands are overactive. Where the "not-self" or foreign proteins come from to start this process is not certain, but the likeliest source is the original virus, acting on lymph cells. And Dr. Dameshek notes that in three familiar diseases definitely known to be caused by viruses-German measles, viral pneumonia and poliomyelitis-there is occasionally a temporary autoimmune phase with blood-cell destruction...
Charges against the man were dropped, however, because he said he was with his girl friend. According to Lane, she was a "Dallas stripper formerly employed in Jack Ruby's night club." Arrested later on a separate charge she hanged herself in her cell. Her boy friend has "completely disappeared...
...fill in for the ailing ingenue on 2 day's notice, and her performance is quite good, if a bit weak in song. Anthony Thompson, on the other hand, sings magnificently in the role of Rackstraw, but acted somewhat woodenly. Consequently, the first act duet, and the "Dungeon Cell" song, lacked the verve of the rest of the show. Here Sullivan can be blamed. The parts of Josephine and Rackstraw get the worst musical treatment in the score, and even then D'Oyle Carte players have trouble with them...