Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Walter Connolly, 53, beloved stage and screen actor, whose procession of whimsical and mellow characters mirrored himself; of a heart attack induced by overwork; in Hollywood. After 23 years on Broadway (The Late Christopher Bean, Uncle Vanya), he went to Hollywood in 1932, thereafter had more work than he could handle...
...marital monotonies. For reasons which the picture never clears up, Alice Faye is cast as Lillian Russell. Queues of top-hatted gentlemen, roomfuls of roses, $15,000 trinkets sent her anonymously by Diamond Jim Brady fail to dent her indomitable domesticity. When Husband No. 1 (Don Ameche) dies of overwork writing an operetta for her, Singer Russell marries Henry Fonda. He has been waiting in the wings all the while, never gets up courage to ask until the end of the picture. In between are the awkward love makings of hippopotamic Diamond Jim Brady (Edward Arnold), who walks through...
...with a law-school diploma in his pocket, he set up to practice in South St. Paul, in partnership with his friend Elmer James Ryan. As a result of overwork, he came down with tuberculosis. That slowed him up for only a short while. With the help of Ryan, a Democrat, he got himself elected a Republican county attorney in 1930. He returned the favor by helping Ryan become city attorney, U. S. Congressman in 1934, again in 1936 and '38. (This year Republican Keynoter Stassen will have to decide whether he is going to support Democrat Elmer Ryan...
Limitations on the pitcher the hitter's ball, and what naturally followed--overwork--has doomed these great flingers. Committee after committee has honestly been after some system to de-rabbit the pellet and stop turning the game into cricket, but nothing has happened constructively. Perhaps this new pitching rule will help. We can only hope so. Because this is one war we want to keep...
Died. Sir John Gilmour, 63, Minister of Shipping in the Chamberlain Cabinet; of heart disease brought on by worry and overwork; in London...