Word: lungfuls
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Cram her larynx, lung, and liver...
Died. Roscoe Ates, 67, slight, Mississippi-born Hollywood comedian who cured himself of stammering as a youth, made a lifelong hobby of helping other stammerers, but won his film fame and a lush living as a stuttering stooge; of lung cancer; in Encino, Calif...
Hayden's father was a Connecticut Yankee who came down with "lung fever," headed West, took the Santa Fe Trail from Independence and finally settled in Arizona. There, on the Salt River, eight miles from a farm village that is now Phoenix, he built a flour mill, started a ferry, opened a general store, a blacksmith shop and a freighting business. Young Carl swam in the Salt River, rode a pet bull while driving cows, recalls seeing Apache fire signals burning at night on nearby Four Peaks. He went to Stanford in 1896 and, as a strapping...
Last summer, after a lung ailment that preceded his heart attack. Styles Bridges was visited in his hospital room by a reporter bearing a bottle of Scotch. "You know," he said, "I'll be back next session, but by golly, I'm going to take it a little easy." Among his Senate colleagues, Styles Bridges was respected as one whose political word was his bond-but this was a promise he could not keep...
...clans, an early F.D.R. backer who at 38 left behind his playboy ways, a dozen corporate directorships and 22 club memberships for a career as a military and diplomatic troubleshooter that won friends and advantage for the U.S. in many nations; of a heart attack following the onset of lung cancer; at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital. After stints as U.S. envoy to Norway and Poland, athletic, impeccably tailored Tony Biddle served brilliantly during the early days of World War II as simultaneous ambassador to seven Allied governments in exile, subsequently switched over to a staff...