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...have been suffering," his letter to the coroner went on thoughtfully, "from a chronic and progressive anxiety neurosis, for as long as I can recall . . . [I have used] barbiturate sedation of various types to control myself in public for about three years; and during the past two-three months, the condition has got out of hand . . . with steady progression and prospect of complete loss of control. It became . . . apparent to me . . . that death is far preferable to institutional treatment . . . Right or wrong, this brings us to the present...
...mass movements of Kikuyu have naturally worsened a confusion that was already chronic. One official orders a thousand Kukes to be at a railroad siding at dawn for shipment in trucks to the reserves; but another official delivers only sufficient trucks for 300 people. The farmers who have been told to deliver the Kukes at the railroad siding are then left to dispose of the 700 overflow as best they can. Nobody so far has seriously faced up to the position that will soon exist, when there are more Kikuyu in the reserves than the reserves can possibly feed...
Despite the confident surface, her friends insist that Ros is a chronic worrier who sometimes gives way to spells of brooding and sudden tears. Her religion (Roman Catholic) bulks large in her life, and she is apt to describe her favorite priests as "living saints." But to religion, as to everything else, she brings a measure of humorous detachment: she once dubbed her flossy Beverly Hills parish church "Our Lady of the Cadillacs." She is a tireless do-gooder and works actively for some 30 charitable and civic activities. Usually she volunteers for the least popular job of all-raising...
Doctors gave Actress Bette Davis, whose Broadway show Two's Company closed a fortnight ago because of her frequent illness, an unhappy diagnosis: severe chronic osteomyelitis of the jawbone. She was ordered to the hospital to have the entire infected portion of the bone removed...
Like many another patient suffering with a chronic disease, the city of Denver put off calling a doctor until its ailment-a corpuscular clotting of automobile traffic in its downtown arteries-grew almost unbearable. By 1947, its regular morning and evening attacks were getting progressively worse, and it had exhausted all the known home remedies. In despair it hired a greying, bucktoothed police captain from Flint, Mich, named Henry W. ("Hank") Barnes and asked him to administer some pain killer...