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Later the persistent stomachache returned, and the girl started a 35 -year tour through American hospitals. She had nine abdominal operations and some 5,600 hours of free medical attention, but the doctors never found any physical basis for her aches & pains. She became a helpless invalid before she finally took the first young surgeon's advice. Then it was too late. No psychiatrist could turn back the clock. By then the doctors agreed that her first trouble had been a simple, psychogenic stomachache, but it had snowballed until every problem in her life brought gastrointestinal distress. She became...
...hops from job to job in his personal DC-3, equipped with extra gas tanks for transocean flights. Kiewit is so busy that recently, when his pilot asked permission to paint the plane's nose, he refused because it would take 48 hours to dry. And the onetime invalid is now so hale that insurance companies long since canceled the penalty rates they used to charge...
When their invalid mother dies, Paul and Elizabeth move to a seaside hotel and then to an 18-room town house, where they screen off one corner of a vast, jumbled gallery. But by then the outside world-in the persons of their friends Agatha and Gerard, who have fallen in love with them-has pried open the door to their secret chamber. The two children who refuse to grow up are unable to survive the sudden, chilling glare of reality...
...Waynes with his wife Valerie, confesses to Valerie that he once loved Ruth, something Valerie had suspected all along. What Ruth doesn't know: Ruth's brother Neddie, who has his own marital troubles, is madly infatuated with Valerie. Ruth's husband John is an invalid. Is his illness caused by a guilt feeling? Would psychiatry help...
...want to be producers. They know nothing so they put on trash. The cry is 'young blood.' Bosh, young blood has corrupted more fine things in this world. It needs to get just a bit stale." About as stale, perhaps, as George Jean Nathan, the Fabulous Invalid's fabulous...