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Farmers had forgotten their chronic worry: low prices and poor markets. Their orders were to produce; and they liked that, because AAAllotments had thwarted their marrow-deep instinct to plant, tend and harvest. Barring too many bugs, too much rain, too little rain, things should have looked good...
...Army has a laconic term for chronic befuddlement: snafu.* Last week U.S. citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu. For months the people and their leaders had pussyfooted around the twin horrors. There were orders and counter-orders. All were different. The people, numb with bewilderment, choked with wrath, gave...
Rushed to a Hollywood hospital, he lay mostly in a coma, suffering from myocarditis, chronic nephritis, cirrhosis of the liver, gastric ulcers. When his great friend, Author Gene Fowler, visited him, Barrymore stage-whispered weakly: "Come closer, Gene, and hold my hand . . . lean over, Gene, I want to ask you something. ... Is it true that you're an illegitimate son of Buffalo Bill?" During a later lucid interval he was received back into the Catholic Church. Last week, at 60, with only his brother Lionel at his bedside, John Barrymore died...
Died. John Barrymore, 60; of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscles), with chronic inflammation of the kidneys, cirrhosis of the liver, and gastric ulcers as contributing factors; in Hollywood...
...these victims could be saved by surgery, says Dr. Cramer, if they saw a doctor as soon as their stomachs kicked up. For there are three easily detectable "pre-cancerous" states: 1) stomach ulcers, which sometimes become malignant; 2) polyps (small growths) in the lining of the stomach; 3) chronic gastritis (inflammation of the lining of the stomach, with symptoms of burning nausea, vomiting, etc.). Persons whose relatives have gastric cancer should be doubly vigilant, for susceptibility to the disease tends to run in families...