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...ability to keep going at high speed, despite a long record of maladies, also mystifies her doctors. She has suffered, loudly, from neuritis, bursitis, ulcers, double pneumonia, smoker's cough and acute gangrenous appendicitis. She also has psychosomatic laryngitis, generally brought on by stormy dealings with a producer. But through it all, the doctors are stumped for any medical rebuttal when she announces flatly: "I'm not built like other people." On the road, she uses three suitcases just for aspirins, Benzedrine, sleeping tablets, vitamins and other pharmaceutical odds & ends...
Died. Fred Niblo, 74, pioneer movie director (Ben Hur, Blood and Sand) and co-founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences; of pneumonia; in New Orleans...
Last week, in Warsaw, following an appendectomy and pneumonia, 67-year-old Augustus Cardinal Hlond died...
Died. Augustus Cardinal Hlond, 67, Roman Catholic primate of Poland; of pneumonia; in Warsaw (see RELIGION...
Died. Charles H. ("Uncle Charlie") Graham, 70, president of the San Francisco Seals baseball club, known as "the Connie Mack of the minor leagues"; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. Graham was a highly successful developer of young talent, sold more than $1,000,000 worth to the big leagues (including such greats as "Lefty" Gomez, Paul Waner and the DiMaggios...