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...plane becomes both too hot and too cold. Disagreeable drafts swirl around his ankles and eyes. The cold air, after being scooped into the plane at 200-300 m.p.h., becomes unpleasantly dry as it warms up. It makes the passenger's eyes smart and aggravates his cold or sinus trouble. If he is a nervous type, he is repelled by all the trapped smells that fill the cabin...
...fanged lightnings of his wit. "The Molehill Men," he calls them. "A radio censor is a man who comes into his office every morning and finds a molehill on his desk. His job is to build that molehill into a mountain before he goes home." It still gets his sinus in an uproar to recall that during the war he was forbidden to refer slightingly to the Ubangi -because, the censors explained, the Ubangi might be holding captive some U.S. airmen, and take offense...
...husband's private plane, Cinemadventuress Veronica Lake smothered it with her mink coat, was forced to appear in furs borrowed from a friend. Frank Sinatra was bedded in Acapulco, Mexico, with intestinal trouble and a high fever. Crooner Dick Haymes went to bed for a week with sinus trouble. Trombonist Jack Teagarden, whose theme song is I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues, was sued for divorce. Errol Flynn, back to Hollywood from Jamaica for the birth of his second wife's second child, had a broken foot (from tennis, he said...
...Yalta," says Mclntire, "it has become the fixed habit of many editors and columnists to state without qualification that Franklin Roosevelt was a sick man, even a dying man." In fact, says Mclntire, he was "tired and worn" and underweight from overwork, but "organically sound" save for a chronic sinus condition. But once the rumors of his decrepitude had been noised around, Mclntire remarks bitterly, supporting evidence was fabricated...
This cured me of: sinus, headaches, constipation, insomnia, dizziness, indigestion, nervousness, poor appetite, palsy of the larynx, sore eyes, nervous perspiration, chronic depression and strained human relations, to mention a few of my former disorders. But, during those four years as a psycho, I did as good a job as anyone...