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...Stevenson had had four stints in hospitals: for removal of a kidney stone a month before the Democratic National Convention in 1952, for treatment and then surgery for a second kidney stone in 1954 (he takes pills in the hope of preventing more stones), for a bout with bronchial pneumonia (five days in the hospital) in 1955. Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington underwent a nerve operation for the relief of high blood pressure and hypertension in 1947; New York's Governor Averell Harriman is now convalescing from a prostate operation that kept him in the hospital for 15 days...
Died. Adrian Rollini, 51, xylophone player in the Adrian Rollini Trio, jazz-age member of the famed California Ramblers (other Ramblers: Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Ted Weems); of pneumonia and complications; in Homestead...
...returned to Bonn last September feeling he had been broken by blackmail and hating himself for it. Three weeks later, weary, downhearted and restless, he took a lonely walk one foggy night along the murky Rhine, hands clasped behind his back. Next day he came down with bronchial pneumonia...
Died. General (ret.) Kazushige Ugaki, 87, onetime (1925-31) War Minister of Japan, Foreign Minister (1938), Governor General of Korea (1931-36), member of the Japanese Diet since 1953; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Acting on the Emperor's mandate in 1937, peace-minded Ugaki made a stab at the premiership, was blocked by rightist warlords who distrusted him for shearing the army of four divisions...
Died. Benjamin Gardner, 59, since 1943 general secretary of Britain's second largest (more than 900,000 members) labor union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union; of complications following pneumonia ; in London...