Word: parkinson
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...movies that Manhattan's Dr. Irving S. Cooper showed to the American Medical Association last week were heartrending even to medical men familiar with the ravages of disease. There were pictures of adult victims of Parkinson's disease, or "shaking palsy"-men who could not stay the agitated tremor of their rigid, half-clenched hands, or could not walk except in jerky petits pas. There were children suffering from nerve disorders similar to Parkinsonism. During an attack, a pretty girl of eleven was doubled up, her whole body distorted and shaking. A boy the same age was bent...
Married. William Black, 53, chunky, outspoken founder of the Chock Full O' Nuts coffee-packing and quick-lunch chain; and Vocalist Page Morton, 32, the second wife in a row whom Philanthropist Black (who bankrolled the Parkinson's Disease Foundation and recently donated a $5,000,000 medical research building to Columbia University) has employed to sing his company's TV commercials; he for the third time, she for the first; in Stamford, Conn...
...million electron volt Harvard Cyclotron has recently treated malignant tumors in four patients, and early results indicate that the Cyclotron may be instrumental in the development of cures for cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease...
Died. Aloisius Joseph Cardinal Muench, 72, only U.S. prelate ever to serve on the Roman Curia, a witty Midwesterner who championed social and labor legislation, served for 13 years as papal representative in West Germany; of Parkinson's disease; in Rome...
...business empire in the early 1900s by such tactics as engineering a Honduran revolution, gained control of United Fruit in 1932 and ran it for nearly two decades with the brusque earthiness of a man who preferred the company's tropical plantations to its Boston board rooms; of Parkinson's disease; in New Orleans...