Word: emphysema
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Bert Wheeler, 72, vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood comedian; of emphysema; in Manhattan. Gifted with a rubberized grin, a quavering voice, and a talent for leaking torrents of tears on cue, Wheeler was a comic fixture ever since 1911 when he played in George M. Cohan's 45 Minutes from Broadway. He went on to the Ziegfeld Follies, then to Hollywood, where he teamed with the late Robert Woolsey in some 30 comedies...
...might look like without its oppressive cocoon of sandbags, barricades, rolls of concertina wire and black exhaust soot (military traffic has created so much air pollution that I wonder why the VC don't wrap their weapons in oil cloth and sit tight for two or three years while emphysema kills off all the city people in Vietnam--a new aspect of the war of attrition theory). Concertina wire surrounds every building or monument of size. The children here are as familiar with it as To mSawyer was with white picket fences...
Died. Charles Bickford, 78, veteran actor; of emphysema; in Los Angeles. A ruddy-faced onetime lumberjack, Bickford most often merely played himself-a rough, tough, but good and decent man, remembered as the priest in The Song of Bernadette (1944), and recently as the leathery ranch owner in TV's The Virginian...
...said Dr. Moore, "although some filter cigarettes are delivering less tar and nicotine to the smoker than regular cigarettes, most are not adequately protecting him from a medical point of view. We believe that improved filters would help stop premature loss of life from lung cancer, emphysema, heart-artery disease, and other diseases associated with heavy smoking...
...HARRY JOHNSTON'S death diminishes the South." Thus one of the nation's leading editors, Eugene Patterson of the Atlanta Constitution, saluted Reporter Harry Johnston, who died at 48, of emphysema and pneumonia, in his fourth year as chief of Time's Atlanta bureau...