Word: parkinsonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PARKINSON'S LAW (113 pp.)−C. Northcote Parkinson−Houghton Mifflin...
Died. Leo ("Lindy") Lindemann, 69, short, hustling founder of Broadway's fabled Lindy's restaurant; of Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Berlin-bred son of a linen peddler, Lindy came to the U.S. at 25, worked as bus boy and waiter. In 1921 he unveiled the first Lindy's just south of 50th Street. Soon his menu featuring gefüllte fish, blintzes and super-cheesecake, attracted the famed and ill-famed heroes of Broadway's big-spending '20s, and Lindy's became the prototype of Damon Runyon's "Mindy...
...reason for S.K.F.'s emphasis on small doses was that many patients on high dosage develop symptoms like those of Parkinson's disease-paralysis agitans. To psychiatrists reporting in Philadelphia last week on their trials of proclorperazine in the back wards of state hospitals, it seemed that the Parkinson signs might be more boon than bane. Using the drug in five to ten times the doses that S.K.F. recommends for office patients, Cincinnati's Dr. Douglas Goldman saw plenty of Parkinson's but decided it was a sign that the drug was reaching the nervous system...
Died. Guy Bridges Kibbee, 70, bottle-bald comedian of stage (Torch Song) and screen (Babbitt, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), best known to moviegoers for his "Scattergood Baines" series and early Shirley Temple films; of Parkinson's disease; in East Islip...
Novelist Frances Parkinson Keyes has quite a story in St. Anne, Grandmother of Our Saviour [Dec. 26] ... But if this "Anne" was so wonderful, why didn't her daughter Mary turn at once, and naturally, to her at the moment of the Annunciation? In Mary's moment of perplexity, amazement and exhilaration, she went with haste to her cousin Elisabeth and stayed with her for about three months! (Luke 1:39 and 56.) (THE REV.) FRANK LAWRENCE...