Word: goiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...featherheaded Babs which takes place one rainy night in a drive-in theater and rages through three continuous showings of Wuthering Heights. There are other comic set pieces, notably a TV quiz called What's My Disease?, where panelists triumphantly identify gruesome samples of elephantiasis, icthyosis and multiple goiter...
Died. Dr. André Crotti, 84, Swiss-educated, internationally famed goiter specialist and author (Thyroid and Thy-mus); in Columbus, Ohio, on the day that his French Artist-Brother Jean Crotti, 79, a forerunner of the surrealist movement and first developer of the now popular gemmaux technique (TIME, March 25), died in Paris...
...admitted them to the church, they had simply been plain Chicago schoolteachers, the spinster sisters Evelyn and Esther Jackson. But the Prophet grandly gave them titles, and they emerged the Princesses Bluntella and Essentina. On top of that, in 1949, he "cured" their 70-year-old mother's goiter by sending her to Gary, Ind. four times to get a drink of water in the bus station...
...Boston hospital, Pakistan's Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and the Begum were recuperating from their operations (hers was gallstones, his goiter). Before starting for home, the Begum had one worry: would her two sons be too chubby to get into the Hopalong Cassidy outfits she has bought them...
Cold War. As the two villages waited for the court's decision, they each poured insulting pity upon the other. "Those poor people, the Spilambertians," said Il Corsaro, "they have the goiter. It's not their fault. It is only the water." Down the road in Spilamberto, the secretary of the village's Demo-Christian Party felt equally sorry for the San Cesarians. "Good folks," he said, "only they have the goiter. Confidentially, they really have got it properly. It is the fault of the water." Said one old Cesarian: "The Spilambertians cannot keep their wives. Three...