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...with slurred speech. Back in Washington he recovered, only to suffer a second and irreversible stroke. During the final 17 months of his second term, the U.S. was shakily ruled by a triumvirate consisting of Wilson's second wife Edith, his White House secretary, Joe Tumulty, and his doctor, Cary Grayson. Cabinet meetings petered out slowly. The first one, held in almost complete, shocked silence, as Wilson's mind wandered, came six months after the stroke. During the course of these meetings, Edith was always close by, and Wilson's attending physician would pop in every few minutes to check...
...academic rank (Ph.D. in political science from Princeton) earned him the right to use the title doctor in 1965. During a 42-year career in the U.S. Navy, however, William J. Crowe Jr. has always been addressed under another system of rank, and since 1973 Crowe's has been admiral. Last week President Reagan added still another title to the admiral's collection, nominating him as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, effective Oct. 1. Crowe succeeds General John Vessey Jr., 63, who chose to retire nine months before the completion of his second two-year term...
...fielding phone calls on any and all subjects from his late-night radio audience. A New Yorker wants to know if the Yankees' recent winning streak might lead to a pennant. ("I don't think their pitching is good enough," King replies.) A man asks King to recommend a doctor who can advise on the pros and cons of surgery for a separated shoulder. (King obliges with the names of two former guests.) Another call consists only of a disembodied recording of the opening theme from a 1960s TV series. (King identifies it: Combat, starring Vic Morrow...
Sara Delano Roosevelt was in labor more than 24 hours before her 10-lb. son Franklin was born, blue and breathless. The doctor urged that she avoid further pregnancies, which she may have done by totally abstaining from sex. Her dedication to young Franklin was of an intensity bordering on the morbid. She kept him in girlish skirts and long blond curls until he was nearly six. Every hour of his day followed a strict schedule: up at 7, breakfast at 8, lessons from 9 to noon...
...odds, that the polyp in his bowel would be found benign. But last week Dr. Steven Rosenberg, the chief of surgery at the National Institute of Cancer, reminded the nation in a single chilling sentence that Ronald Reagan is a vulnerable human after all. "The President," stated the doctor, "has cancer...