Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jimmy and Romelle met in 1938 when he was an ulcer patient, she a nurse at the Mayo Clinic. Jimmy soon became Rommie's favorite patient, and when his first wife, Boston's Betsey Gushing Roosevelt (now Mrs. John Hay Whitney), divorced him, he married Romelle. After the war, they settled down in California and had three children. There were a few minor disturbances, such as the time Romelle went to the hospital after swallowing 15 seconal tablets, but, in general, life seemed to be tranquil indeed-for Roosevelts. A month ago Jimmy filed a separation suit against...
Staid Philadelphia was the scene of an unusually gay reunion last week, and the headquarters for it was an unlikely spot: the Charles P. Bailey Thoracic Clinic. But few celebrators anywhere could have had better cause to rejoice than the 306 graduates of heart surgery who traveled (at their own expense) from as far away as Canada and California, Puerto Rico and Venezuela to let the Bailey team of eight doctors check on their progress. All had been heart cripples a few years ago; now, with a few exceptions, they were well and proud to show...
...Thoracic Clinic's first patient for a heart-valve operation was one of its brightest alumnae: Mrs. Claire Ward, 29, of Newark. In the spring of 1948, Mrs. Ward was bedridden for months with heart failure; she could not even walk unaided to the next room. Today she holds an office job and does her own housework as well. Pressed as to whether she had any complaints, Mrs. Ward admitted that she feels a bit short of breath after climbing three flights of stairs...
...elder son, Eugene Jr., a brilliant classical scholar, committed suicide, reportedly over an unhappy love affair. Younger son Shane did a stretch in a federal narcotics clinic for dope addiction. Daughter Oona became Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife, and O'Neill never forgave her. World War II had sapped his will to write; then a muscular disorder made it physically impossible. He destroyed most of what he had written of the play cycle. His dark brown eyes rested in a pathetically drawn face, his big frame grew skeletal, his voice, out of control, now boomed, now croaked...
Died. Dr. Charles Frederick Menninger, 91, pioneer physician who founded the Menninger Clinic (now the famed Menninger Foundation) in Topeka. Kans. (1919), and with his two sons. Karl and William, developed it into one of the world's top-ranking centers of psychiatric research, treatment and training; after long illness; in Topeka...