Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctors have not been able to do much for a victim of apoplexy (stroke) until he recovers from the initial shock. Now Drs. N. C. Gilbert and Geza de Takats, of Chicago's St. Luke's Hospital, think that they may have a treatment in procaine (the local anesthetic common in dentistry). In the Journal of the American Medical Association, the doctors reported last week that procaine, injected into certain nerves of the neck as soon as possible after a stroke, seems to relieve spasms in the brain's blood vessels...
After last year's great season, many local followers feared that the graduation of stroke Frank Cunningham might leave a brawny boatload without the brains needed for perfect timing and steady generalship. There is still no stroke, but Bolles shows no signs of worry, for Don Felt, from last year's Jayvee eight, Jud Gale, who spent last season at number five for the Varsity, and Bill Curwen, who bids fair to follow in the path of his brother James "Bus" Curwen '42, termed by Bolles "the greatest stroke I ever coached," are all in hot competition for the post...
...danger of being undermanned. Commencement robbed the Crimson of Captain Bob Stone and Stu Clark as well as Cunningham, and cox Al Petite. This leaves--reading from bow to stern--Mike Scully, Dick Emmet, Gale, Frank Strong, and Captain Paul Knaplund. There are gaps at the Two, four, stroke, and cox slots. The latter is not problem, for Jayvee taskmaster Sam King is due for promotion...
Died. William Henry ("Will") Irwin, 74, longtime Jack-of-all-letters; of a stroke; in Manhattan. The hour-by-hour news stories he wrote for the New York Sun on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake made journalistic history of a sort: he wrote six or seven columns a day for eight days, produced an account that later became a book, The City That Was. The same year, he left newspapering for magazine work, did notable muckraking on corrupt journalism (The American Newspaper), ultimately churned out some 30 volumes of fact, fiction, drama and verse...
...piece caught on, and the disc jockeys and record companies began hunting for Jimmy. They found him at the White Sox ballpark, cutting grass. He said he didn't even own a piano. Jimmy made a few records and had a brief burst of popularity, then had a stroke. His left hand stiffened up, and for a while he couldn't play...