Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Prince Yasuhito Chichibu. 50, younger brother of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; of a liver ailment complicated by chronic pleurisy; in his villa at Kugenuma, Japan. The Oxford-educated prince was in ill health during most of World War II, sat it out with Tokyo's military garrison. At war's end Chichibu became Western-minded again, avidly read American comic strips ("Li'l Abner ... I can't understand...
...Life Insurance Co., are the bedroom, kitchen and stairs: "The much-maligned bathroom [is] a relatively unimportant factor." ¶When Rancher Jack E. Johnson of Santa Rosa, N. Mex. took his wife Paula 20, to Santa Fe, doctors knew that she was doomed by acute yellow atrophy of the liver, doubted that they could save her unborn offspring. They tried anyway, and just before Mrs. Johnson died they delivered, by Caesarean section, three boys, each around 3¾ lbs. This week, the triplets were doing fine in incubators. ¶More teeth are lost from pyorrhea than decay, Tuft...
Died. Basil Radford, 55, British cinemactor, whose playing of a deadpan English cricket fan in The Lady Vanishes made him famous on both sides of the Atlantic; of a liver ailment; in London...
...first love, the musical. As Mrs. Anna Leonowens, tutor to the children of the King of Siam, she lived her part so intensely that she signed her personal letters "Mrs. Anna." Last month Gertrude was admitted to New York Hospital for treatment of what seemed to be a minor liver ailment (it was cancer). Last week, after a sudden crisis, the dancing feet were forever stilled. To her friends, it was as though the lights on Broadway had gone out. This week Gertrude Lawrence was buried in the shell pink satin dress she wore in The King and I sequence...
...whole field of vitamins, Merck's greatest triumph, by far, is its most recent. Its chemists extracted the elusive anti-anemia factor from liver in pure form: the ruby-colored crystals of vitamin B12, essential to growth and the most powerful medicinal substance known in nature. One thirty-millionth of an ounce a day is enough for a healthy man's blood-making factory; one three-millionth checks pernicious anemia...