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...Henry V when, some time in the 1880s he decided to "emerge from the murk and chaos and leap up on the stage of human affairs." His stage was the toughest strip of the Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said, "to peel the bark off a gum tree," or "galvanize ten dead bullocks to a trot." A gnomelike figure (5 ft. tall, under 100 lbs.), among the muscular wharf lumpers...
...tried a film comeback (The Sign of the Ram) playing the part of a cripple, later toured in stage plays (The Glass Menagerie, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) that could be acted from a wheelchair or a couch. Her doctor gave the "primary cause" of death as a chronic kidney ailment and bronchial pneumonia, added "I felt she had lost the will to live...
Business School students may be nursing chronic headaches after January 14, when the Metropolitan District Commission moves in its steam shovels and drills to begin construction of a 500-foot underpass on the Boston side of the Larz Anderson Bridge...
...next President of the U.S. will be a man who today has no chronic disease, no sign of heart trouble, and normal or rather low blood pressure. These facts became clear this week when, for the first time in any presidential election, the personal physicians to the two major candidates answered detailed press questionnaires on their patients' health...
...factors that makes Malaya a chronic Asiatic trouble spot and a major headache for the West is its population. Roughly half of it (about 3,000,000) is Chinese. Relatively recent immigrants (most arrived during the last half-century), Malaya's Chinese are industrious and formidable trade competitors for the more easygoing Malays and East Indians. For that reason, Malayan lawmakers have blocked the Chinese from becoming citizens. Thus disfranchised, the mass of Chinese in Malaya have little patriotic interest in the country's future, and most of them tacitly support the guerrillas (almost all Chinese) whom...