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Children afflicted with the disease exhibit a built-in aversion to meat and milk products, and often go into a diabetes-like coma after eating these foods...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Harvard Doctors Discover Disease That Produces Mental Retardation | 4/19/1966 | See Source »

Died. Rabbi Morris Adler, 59, head of Detroit's Shaaray Zedek Synagogue and a leader of U.S. Conservative Judaism, who during a service last month was shot by a deranged student (who then killed himself); after four weeks in a coma; in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 18, 1966 | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...close. At his seaside villa on Cap Ferrat, going deaf and blind, Maugham complained bitterly at the way time's slow hand was writing his last chapter. "I am sick of this way of life," he said. "I want to die." Earlier this month, he sank into a coma following a stroke. The 91-year-old heart beat six days longer in a hospital outside Nice. And then last week it stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...editorial associate of LIFE whose career collapsed in 1945 when he sank into done addiction, but rebounded to new heights in 1959 with explosive appearances on the Tonight show to plug his bestselling memoirs (Mine Enemy Grows Older), giving voice to his acid appraisals of modern art ("a putrescent coma"), advertising ("an overripe fungus") and people in general ("adenoidal baboons"); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 26, 1965 | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

LaPorte lived for 33 hours, mostly in a coma, before dying. From the hospital, he sent a message to friends, saying: "I want to live." A Catholic priest felt sufficiently convinced of his contrition to give LaPorte the last rites of the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Human Voice Means More | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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