Word: heart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George Jean ("Big Frenchy") De Mange, 47, cagey onetime hoodlum, highjacker and bootlegger, latterly a millionaire Broadway restaurateur (The Club Argonaut, Park Avenue. Silver Slipper); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a Hudson Duster, Big Frenchy early opposed British-born Owen ("Owney") Madden's Gophers, later joined Owney in the liquor racket. In 1931 Owney scraped up $35,000 to ransom Big Frenchy when itchy-fingered Vincent Coll kidnapped him and threatened his life. Last week Owney was chief mourner at Big Frenchy's funeral, complete with six cars dripping with flowers...
Died. Floyd Gibbons, 52, staccarticulating, patch-eyed cinema and radio commentator, veteran correspondent of every war since Pancho Villa raided Columbus, N. M. (see p. 54); of a heart attack; on his farm at Saylorsburg...
Died. Carl ("Uncle Carl") Laemmle Sr., 72, tiny cinemaster, pioneer producer of the first full-length photoplay, Traffic In Souls (1912), the first $1,000,000 picture, Foolish Wives (1922), originator of the publicity-bountiful scheme of calling popular actors "stars"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood, Calif...
Died. Dr. Sigmund Freud, 83, exiled Austrian, father of psychoanalysis; of cancer and heart disease; in his son's home in Hampstead, England. Throughout his last 16 years he suffered pain from cancer of the jaw, saw his books burned by Nazis, his ideas distorted by exaggeration, overpopularity, licentious application. Never lamenting his persecution and illness, he waited for death patiently, his only complaint: "It is tragic when a man outlives his body...
...victims of incurable cancer. Of the 17, eight felt completely relieved (several even gained weight, went back to work), seven told him their pain was greatly diminished. Only two had poor results. Other physicians, said Dr. Rutherford, are trying venom injections for relief of pain caused by chronic arthritis, heart disease, gangrene. Advantages over morphine: 1) venom lasts longer (morphine may wear off in three hours) ; 2) it is not habit-forming...