Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fatal Flight. With such facts in mind, Dr. William Dock of the Palo Alto medical clinic lashed out at the tendency to attribute a man's death from heart disease to his work, regardless of other activities. He cited a case history: "An electrician, two years after recovery from [a heart attack] dropped dead at lunch, which had included two bottles of beer. The industrial examiner accepted the claim that death was due to the exertion of walking up a flight of stairs an hour before lunch, and refused to consider that a stomach full of iced beer...
...When George Talks." George Humphrey's budget spark went off with one of Washington's biggest bangs, and the Administration, caught unawares, reacted with near-fatal slowness. This was partly because of the respect George Humphrey has won as the recognized strong man of the Eisenhower Cabinet. "When George talks," another Cabinet member once said, "we listen." Humphrey has generally been worth listening to. At 67, he has applied to U.S. fiscal policy the same firm, careful hand that he used in bringing Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. from a snarled tangle of mining miscellany...
Died. Joyce Cary, 68, Anglo-Irish novelist (Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim) whose tenth novel, The Horse's Mouth, written when he was 54, first brought him broad recognition as a major writer, who worked to the end despite a rare, fatal nerve disease which struck (1954) and progressively paralyzed him; in Oxford, England. Propped up in his wheelchair or bed, with his arm supported by a rope, his pen tied to his hand, he faced death calmly, worked until his limbs were useless, then dictated until his power of speech was gone...
...than Flora MacDonald,* he had spent the war in British intelligence. Which colonel will command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers should perform their own wild dances. The climax is as grim and subtle as is proper to a race which could take its whisky along with the hard Knox of predestination. In the end, the reader will have learned something...
...shot through with the sentimental stoicism of the Hemingway man, and with the hedonist worship of the "art of living," which calls for everything just so-the old-fashioneds must have a touch of honey, the mustache scissors must be of 18th century French make, even the final, fatal razor must be a Rolls...