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...ever admitted. His career was interrupted by World War I, in which he was badly wounded while serving in the Austrian army, and again by the anti-German sentiment of wartime U.S. audiences. In 1941, he was struck by a truck in Manhattan. He recovered after days in a coma, but for a time forgot all modern languages and could speak only Latin and Greek. After 1950, Fritz Kreisler did not play publicly and rarely played privately...
...request, Mister Sam went home to Bonham for the last time, returning to "those friends and neighbors who for so long have given me a love and loyalty unsurpassed in any annals." By last week the cancer had reached his brain. He sank into a coma, rallied, sank and rallied again. Finally he yielded, passed peacefully from his deep sleep to death. Said his doctor: "He just stopped breathing...
...patient is violent, or his illness stubbornly persistent, is he sent away to a hospital. His stay there is almost certain to be less than three months. In the hospital, he gets much the same treatment he would get in the West: drugs, psychotherapy (but non-Freudian), insulin coma and, more rarely, electric shock. The Russians have virtually abandoned their prolonged (ten-day) drug-induced sleep treatment because too many patients developed fevers or anemia. As soon as possible, the patient is discharged to his family, which is paid by the government to care for him if he is unable...
...ultimate in barbiturate prose is the point at which tedium becomes coma, and perennially bestselling Author Keyes may have reached this point in The Chess Players. Her great sedative skill can be appreciated only when it is understood that her material, as such, is fascinating. The novel is set in New Orleans and Paris in the 1850s and '60s, contains an amorous princess, various spies and diplomats, a slave auctioneer, lovely Creole maidens, and splendidly uniformed military personnel. The hero is a brilliant, brooding fellow who becomes the world chess champion and then chucks it all for love...
...champion at 165 Ibs., having won 23 fights and lost only five over a four-year period. Last April 9 at Madison, heavily favored to retain his title, he stepped into the ring against San Jose State's Stu Bartell. Minutes later, Boxer Mohr was in a deep coma from an intracranial hemorrhage following a moderate blow to the head. Eight days after the bout, without regaining consciousness, he died...