Word: sanatorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newsman's Law, which requires a press card in every hat), the story was, of course, a tearjerker: a talented jazz pianist discovers that he has tuberculosis but wants to die beating out his rhythms in cellar joints instead of getting cured in a nice, clean sanatorium. The novelty lay in the fact that Bob Crosby and his Bobcats not only played their instruments but also tried to be players. What was gained in verisimilitude was lost in the wooden-Indian school of acting: Crosby, in particular, delivered each line with a granite impassivity that Ed Sullivan might have...
...Galway, where the big modern buildings of the Western Regional Sanatorium face the mountains of Clare, the case of Bernadette Healy, 19, typified both a century of tuberculosis' ravages and the abrupt change of recent years. Her father, who raised potatoes on two acres, used to tell Bernadette how two neighboring families had been wiped out by the "shameful weakness" of TB. Though he complained about his own "weak chest," he stubbornly refused to see a doctor...
...England's eagerest astronauts, the slide-rule devotees of the British Interplanetary Society, hoot at the book's "scientific" label. Politely, they suggest that Author Allingham has a highly susceptible imagination or that somebody has elaborately hoaxed him. But Allingham, now undergoing lung treatment at a Swiss sanatorium, cares little if critics point out that saucer pictures have been faked in the past with lampshades, garbage-can covers and trapshooting targets tossed in the air. Such books as his apparently answer a deep and widespread yearning for marvels...
Last week, as her husband cooled his heels in Bonn awaiting official action, Daisy took to a sanatorium to rest herself. Germany's Foreign Office issued an official apology for the "extremely regrettable" incident, putting it down to Daisy's "nervousness and inexperience." For the most part, Britons, after thinking it over, were inclined to forgive Daisy. "Nobody who has met Frau Schlitter," wrote the Manchester Guardian, "doubts her enjoyment of the London scene and her affection for the English. It would be a pity if a slip of the tongue were to disturb−it could surely...
...Walt ran out of both money and credit. One day he realized that he had missed at least three meals in a row. He borrowed a camera, photographed some babies, took the $40 he earned and headed for Hollywood. Brother Roy, who had just been released from a TB sanatorium in Arizona, met him there, and they set up shop in the $5-a-month corner of a Hollywood real-estate office. In the next four years the Disney studios produced 24 cartoons in a series called Alice in Cartoonland and 52 more about Oswald the Rabbit. At first, each...