Word: lungs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Richard Tauber, 55, bemonocled Austrian-born tenor, top-ranking specialist in light-wines-&-waltzing schmalzing; of a lung abscess; in London. Tenor Tauber skipped from opera to Lehar operettas in the early '20s, rode lightly to European fame on such frothy flotsam as The Merry Widow, sang Yours Is My Heart Alone so many times (about 15,000) that it became a Tauber trademark...
...simple existence. He took the name Count of Pollenza, after a village in northern Italy. He walked and fished. When he read of events in his ex-country, he was heard to murmur, "This will be the death of me." On Christmas Eve, 1947, he was stricken with a lung infection complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later, in Alexandria, death, as it must to all kings, came to Victor Emmanuel. Clutching at a handkerchief, dry-eyed Elena sat up all night. In the morning a taxicab arrived with a plain wooden coffin tied...
...Lung-chi, information chief of China's bitterly anti-Kuomintang Democratic League, felt that he was being watched, and he had his reasons. One evening recently police knuckles rapped on the gates of the Democratic League headquarters. It was just a routine check on residence registration, they said. Police had long been interested in the building; it was the property (and had once been the headquarters) of the Communist Party of China...
...Roscoe Pound? He is the greatest jurist in your country. It takes many centuries to produce a man like that," Chao Lung Yang, director of the department of criminal affairs of the Chinese National Government declared last night. Chao is now in Cambridge after two months of European travel and three international legal conferences...
Ivory Pegs & Rubber Gloves. To doctors far & wide, Dr. Sauerbruch is a reminder of the onetime glory of German medicine. In his time, he operated on Britain's late King George V and many another European statesman. He became world-famed for his daring pioneering in lung surgery; one of his inventions was a chest operation in a low-pressure chamber to avoid collapse of the lungs. During World War I (a general while still in his 30s) he developed a method of hooking an artificial arm to the muscles of a stump by means of ivory pegs...