Word: checkups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emerging from a three-day "rest and a general checkup" in a private psychiatric hospital in Manhattan, Vagabond Crooner Eddie Fisher protested at a high-pitched press conference that the only romance between Wife Elizabeth Taylor and her Cleopatra costar, Richard Burton, was onscreen. Laughing off rumors of breakup and breakdown as "preposterous, ridiculous and absolutely false," Fisher predicted a similar public disclaimer from Liz, but after a 15-minute transatlantic call, returned to the conference with a stricken look. "You know," he warbled in the most pitiable understatement of the week, "you can ask a woman to do something...
...President also suffered a disappointment relating to his own health. Dr. Preston Wade, a New York back specialist, gave Kennedy a physical checkup; rather than a clean bill of health, the President got a tinted report. Explained Press Secretary Pierre Salinger: "The President's back is stronger. It will be several months, however, before the President can resume vigorous physical activity, and he must expect to experience, as do all people with similar back problems, ups and downs and occasional setbacks." So hopeful had Kennedy been beforehand of a favorable prognosis that he proposed a golf match with Jacqueline...
...burning myself out," confessed Jordan's hard-living King Hussein, 26. as he ended a fortnight's physical checkup in London. "The doctors have advised me to take three days rest each week and a month off every six months. I'm not to do any more aerobatics, and I must fly only in pressurized planes.'' Happily, after eight beleaguered years on the precarious Hashemite throne, the doughty descendant of Mohammed felt he could afford an occasional rehabilitating breather. "Things are now going well at home,'' reported Hussein. "We are over the battle...
Checkout & Checkup. Superintendent of Schools John J. Theobald, on a six-week Ford Foundation tour of European schools, hurriedly beached his gondola in Venice after a summons by Wagner, returned to send a 35-page questionnaire to all 860 principals, asking for itemization of urgent repairs. No fewer than 845 replied. Among their beefs...
Sprung from Manhattan's Neurological Institute after 23 days of hospitalization for "rest and a checkup" because of "emotional upset," Marilyn Monroe was well enough to attend the funeral of ex-Mother-in-Law Augusta Miller, sat teary-eyed next to former Husband Arthur Miller. Later in the week, Marilyn received a tribute of sorts from Carolina Israelite Editor Harry Golden. Nominating the cinemactress for his "Inter-faith Brotherhood Week Award of 1960," Golden reasoned: "Marilyn has married a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew. in that order, and divorced all of them, impartially, with the proper amount...