Word: parkinsons
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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...
...Oxford tea party, the shy young king had met a shy young thing-blonde 21-year-old Daphne Parkinson of Lancashire, who was studying occupational therapy. The king wanted Daphne to share his lonely throne, become mistress of the ten-bedroom palace, every stone of which was brought from Scotland in sailing ships. Only snag: Daphne was 11,000 miles away and the next ship was not due for some time. But kings, even the king of the Cocos, can command when lesser men may not. In answer to an impatient royal radio signal, the is15,000-ton Ceylon-bound...
...looking for FBI-picked investigators to get it operating. As chairman of the nonpartisan group, the citizens picked Spruille Braden, harddriving, blunt-talking ex-Ambassador to Argentina and former Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs. Among the other members: Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, President Thomas I. Parkinson of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, President S. Sloan Colt of the Bankers Trust...