Word: ills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freeport, Ill...
...year or two the Doctor was known to be very ill and when local newspaper men called they couldn't get any news. The Doctor died soon, his body was taken out of the house by night and buried or shipped away, from Freeport before any word of his death was given to the public...
...McGrew, whom she divorced before she went to Hollywood. Her second was Producer Paul Bern, a suicide in 1932. Her third, Cameraman Hal Rosson, she divorced in 1934 for reading in bed. For the last two years her most regular Hollywood escort was Cinemactor William Powell. When she fell ill last fortnight, Jean Harlow was at work on Saratoga, with Clark Gable...
...threatening to retire. Since the season started, Pitcher Dean has got into sports headlines by complaining about umpires' decisions, fighting, pitching "bean balls" (TIME, June 7). Last fortnight, Pitcher Dean's readiness to cause a sensation took the new and unpredictable form of a visit to Belleville, Ill. where he addressed the Presbyterian Men's Club. Next day the Belleville Daily Advocate reported that in the course of his speech Pitcher Dean had called the National League's President Ford Frick and its Umpire George Barr "the two biggest crooks in baseball." Last week, when...
...alarming increase of modern mental diseases.* One out of every 22 persons, promises a New York State survey, may expect to spend some part of his life in a mental hospital. The gloomiest statisticians predict that in a couple of centuries everybody will be insane. The Mentally Ill in America is an authoritative, well-organized account of how the U. S. has coped with mental defectives thus far, attempts no predictions...