Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Several victims of Parkinson's disease, for which no effective treatment had been known, have been freed of their uncontrollable shaking and restored to near-normal life by a new brain operation, reported New York University's Dr. Irving S. Cooper. Discovered by chance when an accident happened during surgery for another purpose, the operation involves opening the skull and shutting down an artery in the brain with silver clamps which are left in place. One patient, so palsied for 18 years that he could not stand, hold a book, feed or clothe himself, now does all those...
Died. Monsignor Carlo Agostini, 64, patriarch of Venice and one of the 24 new Roman Catholic cardinals named by Pope Pius XII in November; of Parkinson's disease; in Venice...
...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk The Silver Chalice, Thomas Costain East of Eden, John Steinbeck Giant, Edna Ferber Steamboat Gothic, Frances Parkinson Keyes My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
...sprang up across the U.S. and in other countries. In 1950, a grateful Congress voted to let Sister Kenny in & out of the U.S. at will, without passport or visa. But night & day work during the Minnesota epidemic of 1946 had undermined her health. Her right side paralyzed by Parkinson's disease, Sister Kenny went back to Queensland, longing for a last look at the jacaranda trees in bloom around her home in Toowoomba. There, this week, she died, aged 66. She had lived to see her jacarandas blossom and to see her life work bearing fruit around...
...Frances Parkinson Keyes (rhymes with eyes) insists that she doesn't really know how to write a bestseller and doesn't much aspire to learn; she likes to think of herself as "a woman of letters." Her readers, who buy her books by the million, find her disavowals hard to believe. So do booksellers; to them, Author Keyes is simply one of the blessings of the trade...