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...Jamaica tan, Eden was still a very sick man. In Jamaica he had suffered a recurrence of fever and of the stomach trouble for which he had earlier been operated on three times-the last time in a delicate and rare operation to remove an obstacle in the bile duct, at Boston's famed Lahey Clinic in 1953. Reports trickled back from the Caribbean that he had sometimes waked shouting in the night. At Cabinet meetings, colleagues noticed that his cheeks were hollow, his face lined, his eyes tired and lackluster. "He could still lose his temper...
...will gross an estimated $52 million annually: $22 million from the hotels, $15 million from the restaurants and $15 million from two food companies now owned by Childs. By putting all companies under one corporate roof, Sonnabend will make a fat tax saving. He will be able to de duct Childs' losses from the hotels' profits (1954: about $2,000,000), thereby add a king-sized fillip to his earnings...
...William Christensen, professor of radiology, ran the first program and showed a mass of X rays to help physicians diagnose their patients' complaints from shadows showing calcification. One particularly clear example: spotting a case of diabetes from chalky deposits in the sperm duct. Only once did Dr. Christensen defer to the possible presence of laymen in the audience, by describing a fetus shown in the womb as "a little stranger." On the other hand, there was nothing that the accidental, nonprofessional viewer could have found upsetting...
...enough to jolt Britain's weekend quiet. Sir Winston is going on 79. He has been shouldering the extra burden of being his own Foreign Secretary. There was also the frantic go-around of the coronation. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, convalescing in the U.S. from a bile-duct operation, would not be back on the job for at least another four months, and there was no assurance that when he did get back he would be able to operate at full steam. Wan, irritable and sometimes forgetful of late, Sir Winston, it appeared, had simply worn himself down...
Died. Dr. Frank Howard Lahey, 73, internationally famed surgeon and founder of Boston's Lahey Clinic; of a heart ailment, 17 days after he assisted in a bile-duct operation on Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden; in Boston...