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...time Numan entered the Foreign Office at Ankara in 1929 as a departmental head, foreign attaches already knew this sick young man with an abscessed lung and deficient hearing as a cold, hard, calculating bargainer. When, 22 months ago, Numan's gradual ascent up the Foreign Office ladder brought him to the top rung as Minister, no one was surprised...
...Foreign Minister, Menemencioglu did not always endear himself to opposing diplomats. He knew how to use his partial deafness and his lung ailment during diplomatic conversations, failing to hear what did not suit him, throwing tantrums in the midst of serious conversations, stalking away to "recuperate...
Lanky, sandy-haired Kenneth Daane, graduated from Michigan's Grand Haven High School, then supported his mother by grinding precision tools in Muskejon. After he enlisted in the Army he was sent to the University of Chicago. He got pneumonia, lost part of his left lung, then got bronchiectasis. Last March, pallid, 22-year old Kenneth Daane was back in Grand Haven, a 50% disabled veteran, anything but bitter, eager to start a new life. Last week he was well...
...Lung Operations. Most dramatic is the removal of whole lungs (pneumonectomy) or parts of lungs (lobectomy)-a drastic operation which sometimes completely extirpates the disease. This operation was once so hazardous (about 35% mortality) that it was used only in otherwise hopeless cases. But Drs. Richard Overholt and Norman Wilson of Boston told the American Trudeau Society that the technique has now reached a point where the operation "should be considered" early in tuberculosis and not used as a last resort...
Charley was a talented young musician of 17, playing saxophone with a local radio orchestra, when he contracted in fantile paralysis. Then followed a year in an iron lung and three more in bed. He switched from sax to clarinet, deriving his musical inspiration from an excellent recorded library by Tesch, Huntz Hall, Pee Wee, and others steeped in the musical traditions of the Mississippi delta...