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...interested in knowing me ES the person Mose Simms alluded to last autumn when he boasted "only one paying customer" on his football team. You see, I had the gall to come to St. Mary's without ever having heard of Mose Simms, and reported for football practice out of that little thing known as school spirit...
...plane on a Saturday evening. He wore a gold wrist watch, a gold wrist compass. In the pockets of his superbly tailored flier's uniform he had a photograph of his four-year-old son, two phials of medicine, one for his weak heart, the other for a gall-bladder ailment. He also had a selection of photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel Castle near Glasgow. Dungavel is the seat of 38-year-old Wing Commander Douglas-Hamilton...
Gallstones. About one-third of all elderly women have gallstones. If a patient suffers recurring attacks of colic-sharp pains in the right ribs and under the right shoulder blade-she had best have her gall bladder removed. There is no method of dissolving gallstones, no medical treatment to cure colic, no diet which will heal a scarred sac. Once her gall bladder is removed, a woman can get on very well, provided she follows a bland diet...
...Minnie Hill, TIME'S apologies. Now 78, dignified, charming Mrs. Hill modestly deprecates her pilot past, turns down all radio offers, gets roiled when she is compared with Tugboat Annie. (Beams her proud husband, however: "Minnie, if you had a little more gall, you'd be in the movies.") Says Mrs. Hill of her "ancient history": "I never wore overalls, I wore skirts...
Most surgeons prefer to cut out the gall bladder with the stones because a sack, once diseased, usually becomes inflamed again. The operation is not difficult, and since the gall bladder is not an essential organ (horses have none), a patient need only follow a low-fat diet to stay healthy...