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DIED. ALAN DUGAN, 80, American poet who alternately endeared and offended readers with his language--with its liberal scatological references--and such prosaic themes as drinking, irksome jobs and masturbation; of pneumonia; in Hyannis, Mass. His first collection, Poems, won the Pulitzer Prize...
DIED. MARION HARGROVE, 83, best-selling author of See Here, Private Hargrove; of pneumonia; in Long Beach, Calif. A grinning account of yardbird misadventures during World War II, it instantly catapulted the 22-year-old North Carolina recruit to fame. The book and its sequel were made into movies starring Robert Walker. Hargrove went on to become a film and TV writer whose credits included The Music Man, I Spy, Maverick and The Waltons. Said Hargrove in 1947: "I was just an ordinary guy, writing for a small audience. Suddenly, success picked...
...your concerns with your physician, no matter how absurd you might think they are. "Some of those imagined possibilities are so frightening that people feel embarrassed to share them," says Cope. "Your thoughts could run like this: This is probably only a cold; I hope it's not pneumonia; I sure hope I haven't got leukemia." If you don't share these fears with your doctor--and give him or her a chance to rule out worst-case scenarios--you may continue to have nagging doubts about both the diagnosis and your doctor's skill, says Cope...
...white nights of summer, in paintings like Landscape of the Summer Solstice (1943). Under the crouching trees, the focal point is a menacing dandelion. The implicit dread is more than merely romantic - imagine a soundtrack of German bombers. Dogged for years by severe asthma, Nash died in 1946 of pneumonia, aged 57. The last painting in the show is Farewell (1944), a moment of calm after the bombing raids and the high summer heat. A dry branch writhes like a dead snake against shades of cool lettuce, but a thick wood still lurks darkly on the left. In Nash...
...Eileen took a house on a remote Scottish island, raised goats and chickens, and adopted an infant boy they named Richard, after Orwell's father. Despite continuing infidelities, Orwell remained a devoted dad and husband. He was not, however, a healthy one, afflicted regularly with bronchitis and pneumonia. Eileen had her problems as well. In 1945, while Orwell was away in France, she had surgery to remove uterine tumors and died on the operating table. Orwell was devastated. He set out to raise Richard alone, but proposed marriage to nearly every woman he met. He also finished Animal Farm...