Word: emphysema
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Just as important, the hospital without walls gives long-term patients the comfort and reassurance of familiar surroundings. Neil Ballantyne, 74, a retired accountant, has been bedridden with emphysema and a fractured spine for more than two years. Although he sometimes needs a respirator or other special equipment, he has not been hospitalized since 1973. Says he: "This service is marvelous because it enables me to be at home, where I want to be, instead of in the hospital forever...
...Leroy Gore, 73, self-described "thoroughly conservative Republican country editor" of the weekly Sauk City (Wis.) Star who was alarmed by Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist excesses, started an unsuccessful "Joe Must Go" drive in 1954 and lost his newspaper after being harassed by local authorities; of emphysema; in Jefferson...
Died. Main R. Bocher, 86, whose simple, subtle couture designs influenced modern fashion for 40 years; of emphysema; in Munich. Bocher (the Christian name came from his mother's Scottish family) grew up on the West Side of Chicago. He remained in Paris after fighting in World War I, became editor of the French Vogue, then set up the Mainbocher salon in 1930. Among his innovations were the introduction of short evening dresses and of decorated cardigan sweaters. Mainbocher's creations graced Wallis Warfield Simpson at her marriage to the Duke of Windsor, as well as millions...
Someone had asphyxiated the old man, which should not have been hard, since he was suffering from emphysema. Suspicion quickly centered on the Mafia itself. During the final years of his life, Roselli made two cardinal errors. He called public attention to the operations of the Mafia and, much worse, he betrayed one of its members...
Died. Richard Arlen, 75, romantic leading man who soared to stardom as a World War I aviator in Wings, a 1927 spectacular that won the first Oscar; of emphysema; in North Hollywood. Arlen appeared in some 250 films in a 50-year career that he claimed began with an unusual lucky break-a broken leg, incurred on the Paramount lot, where he was a motorbike-riding messenger boy. Sympathy brought recognition and a chance...