Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom, who said what. Turkey's jittery police often resort to drastic measures. Occasionally an Istanbul newspaper notes briefly and enigmatically that the body of a Turk or an Eastern European has been fished up from the dark waters of the Bosporus. One local definition of such events: "Death from over-interrogation...
...literary world shook with a double-barreled report: 1) Ernest Hemingway's first book since For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) would be out in March, and 2) Hemingway had been close to death last February when he started writing it. As his publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons, told the story: Hemingway suffered blood poisoning in February from a fragment of shotgun wadding that lodged in his eye while he was shooting wild fowl in Italy. Doctors gave him a short time to live. Feeling that he could not finish the novel "of large proportions" that...
...bacteria under attack may develop a tolerance for the drug. Last week doctors at the 13th Congress of the International Society of Surgery in New Orleans were reminded of another danger: antibiotics speed up the clotting time of the blood, thus subject the patient to the risk of death from blood clots forming, breaking loose, and being carried through the heart into the lungs...
...that shock and infection have been brought under control by science, thromboembolism* has replaced them as the principal cause of death after operations, reported Dr. Alton Ochsner of Tulane. Because of the clotting speedup, he said, the "almost routine administration of antibiotics to all hospital patients" has become a major factor in the increase in cases of thromboembolism...
...great man's funeral in the Madeleine, admission was by card only: 3,000 crowded into the chapel. Theophile Gautier wrote his epitaph: "Rest in peace, beautiful soul, noble artist! Immortality has begun for you . . ." History has confirmed Gautier. This week, on the centenary of Chopin's death, the western world honored him on a scale matched only by the plaudits he knew in his lifetime...