Word: parkinsonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Israel Amter, 73, one of the founders (in 1919) of the Communist Party in the U.S.; of Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. A pianist and composer by profession, Amter was a tireless leader of demonstrations of the unemployed, frequently his party's candidate (unsuccessful) for U.S. Senator, governor and mayor of New York. He was included in the 1951 indictment (for conspiring to overthrow the Government by force) which sent 15 top Communists to jail, but was not brought to trial because of ill health...
Eleven members of the senior class received their letters: Pickard, Prior, T. H, Alcock, John Parkinson, B. H. Dorman, F. A. Clark, David Shaw, S. C. Burns, George Crawford, French, and Guarnaccia...
...candidates turned out on Monday afternoon for Coach Cambells first practice. By the Andover game the squad had been pruned to three teams and a number of stars began to twinkle ever so faintly: French (later captain), Putnam, Cunningham, and McGehee in the backfield; O Connell, Harrison, Wolfe, Churchill, Parkinson, Robinson, and Prior from...
...Brickman, Joel L. Chinman, Leo H. Daley, Jr., Ronald Gene Eikenberry, John T. Evjy, Anthony A. Gianelly, Robert A. Hastings, Phillip Carberry Haughey, Richard J. Holschuh, James L. Joslin, Anthony M. Markella, Peter M. Meister, Theodore N. Metropoulos (Capt.), John L. Newell, Jr., Charles A. Papalia, Thomas H. Parkinson, William R. Shane, Lawrence T. Shields, John A. Simourian, W. Richard Smith, Jr., Robert Wynne, Harold L. Goldberg...
...Neill died of bronchial pneumonia. He had been ill with Parkinson's disease, an ailment which causes a form of palsy, and was unable to write for several years...