Word: illnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Humorist Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, 63, lying ill of an abused stomach in a San Francisco hospital, sat up in bed ("like a bullfrog in a pan of milk," said one reporter), and told the press: 1) "I can't say that the X-ray pictures flatter me. One of them looked like a plaster cast of Madam Perkins. I am having them retouched." 2) "Now I have to quit eating anything fit to eat, smoke nothing, drink nothing, and go to bed at 7 p. m. This is calculated to make me live at least five years longer...
Rumpled Columnist Heywood Broun, 50, who is always at odds with his editors, reported in his syndicated daily comment It Seems To Me that he had had a conversation with Nudancer Sally Rand. She confronted him with: "I always say it is an evil thing for anybody to speak ill of his employer. Don't you agree with me, Mr. Broun?" Said he: "This took me somewhat by surprise, for it is a notion to which I have given little thought one way or another. And since my mind was not made up, I gave an evasive answer...
...cause of disease in the U. S. is not poverty, urban life, or plain ignorance, but "cold polar waves traveling down the central trough of the continent." Last week in a book-full of statistics, weather maps and medical long shots, Dr. Mills published his latest ideas on the ill winds of North America...
Married. Frederick Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, and Teresa Larkin, 25; in River Forest, Ill. While touring China in 1936 Fred Snite was seized by poliomyelitis. His diaphragm muscles paralyzed, he would have suffocated had he not been near Peiping Union Medical College Hospital, which owned an iron lung. A year later, when his wealthy father (in the small loan, furniture and real-estate business in Chicago) decided to bring Fred home, it was necessary to transfer him from one iron lung to another. The transfer took three precarious minutes, left Fred gasping and half-strangled...
...churchmen-Bishop John Mark Gannon of Erie, Pa., Bishop James A. Griffin of Springfield, Ill., Monsignor Michael J. Ready of Washington-had gone to Mexico to confer on a joint enterprise, a seminary founded two years ago at Las Vegas, N. M. to furnish priests to the Mexican Church. For seminaries, as well as cassocks, are illegal in practice in Mexico. The U. S. prelates found the seminary with its 66 students, going well enough. For the rest, they visited Mexico City's landmarks, were banqueted-in mufti-by a Methodist who has not always been popular with Catholic...