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Colitis. The colon is next to the tail end of the large intestine. It may become sore from emotional strain, passage of rough food, hereditary kinks. The trouble is usually not serious, and a nervous person must learn to "live with his colon." Before going to parties, those who "fill up quickly with gas . . . can often get great relief by taking a teaspoonful of paregoric or a quarter of a half grain of codeine sulfate...
...Blue Ridge foothills at Marion, Va., a coffin was lowered into a grave. In it was the burly body and curious brain of Sherwood Anderson, paint manufacturer, ad writer, editor, short-story teller, novelist, poet, American. The grave had had to wait more than two weeks. Anderson died at Colon, Panama...
Canal Zone, last month. He had sailed from Manhattan on the same ship with Playwright Thornton Wilder, who is on a cultural mission to Latin America. At sea Anderson fell ill, 48 hours later had to be carried ashore at Colon on a stretcher...
Three days later he died of an abdominal obstruction and peritonitis - "right on schedule," said one of the Colon hospital men, explaining that people with such trouble usually live just five days...
...walked down the bed of a river, out of a successful paint business, into a vivid, dreamed world of his own, in describing which (Winesburg, Ohio; Poor White; Dark Laughter) he became for a time (roughly, the '205) one of America's great storytellers; in a Colon, Canal Zone hospital, whither he had been taken ailing with peritonitis from his South America-bound ship (TIME, March...