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...Christina's only brother, Alexander Onassis, was killed in a plane crash at Athens airport. One year later, Christina's mother, who had followed her sister's example by marrying Stavros Niarchos, died mysteriously of pulmonary edema. Finally, Ari himself succumbed to bronchial pneumonia in Paris earlier this year. "I think she wanted to make a complete break with the past," says Baron de Rosnay of Christina's unexpected wedding...
...road tests. Spiced with tart "McCahillisms" (he once compared a Jaguar's heating system to "an old lady breathing on your leg"), "Uncle Tom's" column had a wide following for almost three decades. ∙ Died. Bob Wills, 70, "Western Swing" bandleader-composer; of pneumonia; in Fort Worth. Wills turned out dance tunes that are now called country rock, introducing with his Texas Playboys such C & W classics as Take Me Back to Tulsa and New San Antonio Rose...
...Still a vigorous defender of the glories of housewifery, the 1961 Pulitzer prizewinner had little praise for modern poets. "They stopped using rhyme, and they stopped using meter," she complained. "They're just kind of wandering about, like Erica Jong." Slowed down recently by a stroke and pneumonia, McGinley has all but given up writing her own agile light verse. She spends her time in her Manhattan apartment reading and watching her favorite TV shows, M*A*S*H and The Streets of San Francisco. "I don't like any of the good programs. I like mush...
Acute or clinical depression, which is characterized by dejection, fearfulness and, as the medical dictionaries phrase it, "an absence of hope," differs from garden-variety glumness as, say, double pneumonia differs from sniffles. It is not a new ailment; doctors have known about it for centuries. But medicine has only recently learned how to treat it Merely telling a patient that his fears are groundless does no good at all. Conventional psychoanalysis is equally ineffective in most cases; Knauth visited a Freudian therapist for six months without exorcising any of his personal demons...
Just think: If you'd tried out for the Harvard swim team a couple of months ago, stuck it out through the practices, successfully avoided pneumonia, muscle strains and depression, and excelled on that undefeated team, you could have spent last night in a Holiday Inn in Independence, Ohio...