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...simple and earthy language that sometimes stretched reality. In 1902 the Seven Drawer Drop Head Minnesota Sewing Machine was described as "the highest of high grade in everything." Couches and sofa beds were the "greatest values the world has ever seen." Dr. Rowland's System Builder and Lung Restorer was described as the "greatest vegetable medicine of the age for the thousand ailments common to the masses." Some copy was thorough to a fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sear's Sizzling New Vitality | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

HOSPITALIZED. Pat Nixon, 72, wife of ex-President Richard Nixon; for a lung infection; in New York City. The former First Lady has a history of respiratory infections and suffered strokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 16, 1984 | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...leviathan Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, who presided over more than $3 billion of construction during his 40-year career, including such prestigious and innovative design commissions as New York City's Lever House, Chicago's towering John Hancock Building, and San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach Building; of lung cancer; in Jacona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 25, 1984 | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...After two years, convinced that cancer was the only possible explanation, she persuaded a doctor to take a chest X ray. "That's when they found the whopper, "she recalled recently before her death. The pain had been real, and so was the large tumor in her lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...husband has been in constant pain with cancer of the lung, which has spread to the bones, the spinal column and the brain. Perhaps some of the people who are opposed to giving heroin should have to watch a person suffering day after day. I have watched my husband die by inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Heroin, a Doctors' Dilemma | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

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