Word: parkinsonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STEAMBOAT GOTHIC (562 pp.)-Frances Parkinson Keyes-Messner...
Though his pen has been still for the better part of twelve years, Eugene O'Neill, ill with Parkinson's disease, has twice dipped into his backlog of unproduced plays. In 1946 Broadway saw The Iceman Cometh, which O'Neill had completed in 1939; A Moon for the Misbegotten, written in 1940, got its premiere in Columbus, Ohio in 1947. Moon for the Misbegotten opened to what the trade calls mixed notices, but played to good houses in Cleveland, St. Louis and Detroit, although Detroit demanded that such key terms as "whore," "bastard," "son of a bitch...
Nurse Sister Kenny, who announced last year that she was suffering from Parkinson's disease and would spend the rest of her life in Australia, told Sydney reporters that she now feels well enough to plan a two-month trip...
...furniture line, and business is bad, but Mr. Beluncle has castles in the sky. He is sternly self-assured with his wife, his three sons and the widow who puts up the money for the furniture business. Part of his assurance comes from belonging to the Parkinson group, a circle of self-elect who believe in Love, Smiling, and the Unreality of Death. "When I go to my factory and make furniture, to mortal sense I seem to be making wardrobes, armchairs and so on, but really I am spreading love," says Mr. Beluncle. "And the more I spread love...
Married. John Clunies-Ross, 22, "King" (by land inheritance) of Britain's lonely Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean, and Lancashire Lass Daphne Parkinson, 21; in London (TIME, Sept...