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...crown rights from his own infant son, three-year-old Prince Abdullah. He feared Jordanians would reject Abdullah as King because the child's mother, Princess Muna (formerly Toni Gardner), was a British commoner. After the decision was announced, Princess Muna flew abruptly to Britain for a "medical checkup," taking Abdullah and his little brother with her. It was her second trip home to see the doctor within a month, but spokesmen at Hussein's palace in Amman denied that there was marital trouble in the royal household...
...tell Murrow, 56, that Britons will know him as Sir Edward from now on. Queen Elizabeth made him an honorary knight commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his furtherance of Anglo-American understanding. Ed himself was in New York Hospital for another checkup following removal of a cancerous left lung 14 months...
...duke had no hint of trouble until about four years ago. Then, during a routine checkup, Manhattan's Dr. Arthur Antenucci diagnosed an aneurysm that required watching. But it was too small at the time to justify the major surgery that would be involved in its removal. No special diet was needed, no drugs. How little distress the aneurysm caused the duke is shown by the fact that he was able to keep working steadily for most of this year on his movie, A King's Story...
Kelley recovered rapidly and was ready to go home when the doctors decided on a last-minute X ray, a final checkup for safety's sake. The results were astonishing: the bullet seemed to have disappeared. Then another X ray found it-lodged in the right ventricle (lower chamber) of Kelley's heart. Medical annals are full of cases in which wandering bullets have traveled from the chest, say, to such unlikely places as the knee. But the young Maine hunter had set what astounded doctors thought might be something of a record. Having been shot...
...kidney stone removed by manipulation and another by surgery. It is the place to which Clara Bow, the "It" girl of the '20s, went when she was failing in the '40s, and to which Prince Feisal, now Premier of Saudi Arabia, went for an ulcer checkup...