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When he died (of tuberculosis) at Saranac Lake, N.Y., in August 1944, he was to U.S. eyes the First Filipino in more senses than one. Among his countrymen he had critics who deplored his dictatorial ways, but to thousands of other Filipinos he ranked with the great patriots. The Good Fight is Quezon's autobiography. Earnest, mild in its verdicts, limited in range but now & then surprisingly revealing, it is his profession of faith in the U.S., his story of how a boy from the out-of-the-way Luzon barrio of Baler, Tayabas Province, rose in the world...
Lila Lee, doll-faced heroine of the silents, and off & on the theatrical comeback trail ever since, took it easy at a Saranac Lake, N.Y. tuberculosis sanitarium, said she was "doing beautifully," after nearly a year there, hoped to be back in Manhattan late this summer...
Albert Einstein, vacationing at Saranac Lake, N.Y., went sailing with several friends in an 18-ft. boat, capsized in choppy water, had to be rescued by motorboat...
Manuel Quezon, 65, first President of the Philippine Commonwealth, lay in a log house at Saranac Lake, N.Y. He was listening: his physician was reading aloud from the Sermon on the Mount. Tuberculosis had almost conquered his fighting-bantam little body. But he did not believe he could die when the sun was shining, and now it was bright morning. After a while he asked that the radio be turned on. The news: U.S. troops had landed at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. Manuel Quezon, who had dreamed of re-entering Manila with General MacArthur, exclaimed: "Just 600 miles!" Then...
...treatments, 56% were improved, none were worse. At the same time 65% of an untreated group got worse. Dr. John William Guy Hannon of Washington, Pa. tried the dust on 176 silicotics in the ceramics, steel and glass industries, improved 168 of them. Famed Pathologist Leroy Gardner of Saranac Lake, N.Y. has also tried out aluminum (and other dusts) on silicotic guinea pigs, watched the successful results by X-ray and microscope...