Word: emphysema
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Died. Daniel Reid (Dan) Topping Sr., 61, heir to tin-plate millions and an owner of the New York Yankees for 21 years; of emphysema; in Miami. A topflight amateur golfer in his 20s, Topping bought a piece of the Yankees in 1945, became co-owner and president two years later. He caused major rhubarbs by firing two pillars of the Yankee dynasty, Managers Casey Stengel and Yogi Berra, but won 14 American League pennants before quitting the front office in 1966. Sleek, perennially tanned, Topping was married six times (to Actress Arline Judge and Skater Sonja Henie, among others...
...Erie, P-A-some punk burg") returns early one morning in 1928 to his fleabag hotel, after a five-day binge. With a snappy-brim hat, stubble on his chin, a nearly empty pint in his pocket and a cigarette wheeze that makes his fits of laughter sound like emphysema, Erie has the jauntiness of a doomed sucker...
...burning cigarette can be as lethal for the non-smoker who breathes it as for the smoker who puffs it. This worried nonsmokers, of course, because it confirmed that all the health hazards the Surgeon General warned smokers about in his famous 1964 report--lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and the rest--were hazards they faced as well, merely because they lived and worked with smokers. But the 1972 report also pleased non-smokers: Here, at last, were solid medical reasons to restrict smoking in public...
...smoker. The cigarette filter often protects the smoker; the non-smoker has no such protection and must breathe the smoke that wafts his way from the cigarette's end. That unfiltered smoke contains more cadmium than is contained in filtered smoke. (Cadmium, in large doses, is connected with emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and hypertension). Unfiltered smoke also contains almost twice the tar and nicotine of filtered smoke. A study in Germany revealed that a non-smoker in a closed room where several cigarettes have recently been smoked inhales as much tar and nicotine as a smoker does from four or five...
Died. Harold Dunbar Cooley, 76, Democratic Congressman from North Carolina from 1934 to 1966; of emphysema; in Wilson, N.C. Cooley was chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture for 16 years and veteran of countless annual farm battles. He was the only Southern Democratic Congressman who survived a refusal to sign the "Southern Manifesto" against racial integration...