Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Condition Satisfactory." At 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, the anxious crowd at the Palace gates got the word for which they had waited so long. "The King," said a bulletin pencilled on a gilt-framed white card and hung outside the Palace, "underwent an operation for lung resection this morning. Whilst anxiety must remain for some days, His Majesty's immediate postoperative condition is satisfactory...
...authorities or Surgeon Clement Price Thomas, the 57-year-old Welsh chest specialist who performed the operation. Britons were still as much in the dark over the exact nature of the King's illness as they had been when the doctors first spoke of "structural changes" in his lung. The nature of the operation (resection is the removal of the whole or part of a lung) indicated the presence of either a growth (tumor or cancer) or an abscess (caused by bronchiectasis...
Died. Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou (Leland) Diamond, 61, No. 1 mortar man of the Marine Corps and long its greatest living legend; of a lung ailment; in Great Lakes Naval Hospital, ILL. A roaring, weatherbeaten old China hand, he spent his off hours downing beer by the case, persistently refused a commission ("No one can make a gentleman out of me!"), created new legends wherever he served. On Tulagi, in World War II, they told how he smashed 14 Japanese buildings in a row with his 81-mm. mortar, then popped a shell down the chimney of the 15th. Reverent...
...picture which showed King George looking haggard and ill as he returned from a vacation in Scotland to consult a London physician. It filled his subjects with alarm rather than reassurance. The country has worried about the King's health ever since he came down with a lung inflammation last June. "What is wrong with the King?" asked Reynolds News in headlines accompanying the picture. "Is the King a sick man?" asked another newspaper. "If so, the nation should be told...
Died. Antonin Besse, 71, French merchant prince who made a fortune bringing the riches of the Middle East (skins, coffee, frankincense, myrrh) to Europe; of lung congestion; in Elgin, Scotland. He emerged from self-chosen anonymity 'in 1949, when an alert newsman discovered that it was Besse who had given Oxford ?1,500,000-biggest gift from a foreigner, second largest in modern times-to set up a new college, St. Antony's. Object : to foster Anglo-French relations and further the characteristic he admired most in Oxonians-"grit...