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Died. Francis Anthony (Frank) Nixon, 77, father of Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, onetime telephone lineman, who settled in California, married Hannah Milhous (1908), became a successful storekeeper; of lung congestion, 13 days after the rupture of an abdominal artery suffered the day of his son's renomination; in Whittier, Calif...
...less angry−principally because most of the reforms it advocated have been put into effect− it is nonetheless outspoken and alert. In 1952, a few days after King George VI of Great Britain died, the Lancet frankly discussed the King's ailments (Buerger's disease, lung cancer and arteriosclerosis) and the immediate cause of his death (coronary thrombosis). It has also reported candidly about the low standards of general practice under the British National Health Service, about bad conditions in mental hospitals, about the problems of the aged...
...Australia's House of Representatives (in 1940, as Minister for both Commerce and the Navy, he refused to retract an insult made on the floor of the House, became the only Minister in the Commonwealth to be voted out of a Parliament for disciplinary reasons); of a lung ailment; in Sydney...
Died. Albert Woolson, 109, last surviving Union veteran of the Civil War,* at 17 enlisted (October 1864) as a drummer in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, traveled with Union occupation forces through Tennessee but saw no action; of lung congestion; in Duluth. Chipper, cigar-smoking Woolson was senior vice commander of the once influential (peak membership in 1890: 408,489) Grand Army of the Republic, which held its last encampment...
...ladies were provided with their own little horns with which to answer the bucks in the field. By the 18th century horn buffs were experimenting with waltzes, mazurkas and polkas. In some of the orchestras of the day, the hunting horn was given high, florid parts totally beyond the lung capacity of most modern players...