Word: heart
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...been shown to be an international syndicate of about 30 viruses in two groups. Some cause Iceland's pleurodynia, or "devil's grip," and Bornholm disease (named for the Danish island in the Baltic where it was first reported). Others cause a rapidly fatal inflammation of the heart muscle in the newborn. One sets off a severe sore throat unaptly named herpangina. Several behave like polio's little brothers. And, said Dr. Dalldorf, now with Sloan-Kettering Institute after a stint with the National Foundation, many reported cases of paralytic polio after Salk vaccinations are probably...
...News-Sentinel, Whitehead will produce three columns a week on anything that comes to mind, while continuing to work on his next book. This week his first column began: "A wise man once said that home is where the heart is, and that's what I've decided after years of knocking around this troubled, exciting old world. No one was more surprised than I when the realization finally came that 'home' was back here in these ancient and beautiful hills that seem to bound a little world of their...
With the Henry Hudson as his base, he really took to heart the Carte Blanche brochure: "Carte Blanche . . . is a credential that you are accustomed to the very finest service and attention." He ordered eight custom-tailored silk shirts, four pairs of slacks, two sports jackets, an evening outfit of tuxedo, patent leather shoes, soft black hat and walking stick. To hold his finery, he charged two pieces of luggage, flew to Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel and took a $21-a-day room. There, the first suspicious glance was cast at his credit card. The hotel asked...
...grossed $5,000,000 from films (The Great Caruso) and recordings (Be My Love, The Loveliest Night of the Year) that sold more than a million copies each, collected a mass of button-snatching fans who fed his conviction that his loud voice was a great one; of a heart attack; in Rome. Lanza quarreled capriciously with his Hollywood benefactors, was sued for $5,000,000 by M-G-M for refusing to appear in The Student Prince. His voice already showing tarnish, he allowed an earlier recording to be dubbed in when he sang...
...Bell, 65, iron-willed National Football League Commissioner (1946-59) who, by a liberal use of his powers and an occasional violation of the letter of the bylaws, turned professional football into a booming sport, aroused interest to the point of doubling attendance and players' salaries; after a heart attack; in Philadelphia...