Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OTTO MCFEELY Oak Park, Ill...
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc. Wilmette, Ill...
Elected mayor of New Orleans in 1946, deLesseps Story Morrison took one good look at that provocative grande dame among U.S. cities and made a worried diagnosis: the old lady was dangerously ill with municipal thrombosis, high blood pressure and cancer. Morrison set out to cure all three and rejuvenate her as well. Last week, celebrating his eleventh anniversary as mayor by dedicating an eleven-story, $8,000,000, glass-and-class city hall, "Chep" Morrison, 45, proudly and properly declared his girl well out of danger and enjoying a new uplift from skyline to dockside...
That Tired Feeling. The whole town (pop. 2,500) was full of cases of a mysterious, ill-defined but often disabling illness. Typical was the case of a beauty-shop operator, who noticed in May of last year that she just could not shake off that tired feeling, had increasingly severe and frequent headaches and pain in the neck...
...such as they were, flowed down effortlessly to the traders on the coast. But the fact that, beyond a trickle of gold and ivory, the marauding chieftains of the interior had only human bodies to offer in trade was evidence of the real poverty of the people within-an ill-fed, disease-and fear-ridden race. To the African tribesman, whatever his ancestry or point of origin, the realities of life were pretty much the same all over the land. They consisted primarily of the village and the bush-the clearing in the forest where the tribal family had pitched...