Word: strokings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Frazier Hunt, 82, who helped cast the stereotype of the dashing, trench-coated foreign correspondent; of a stroke; in Abington, Pa. "Spike" Hunt lived and wrote in the same style-first person singular. Beginning with World War I, he embarked on a Cook's tour of hot spots and the men who caused them-Lenin founding his Bolshevik regime, Pancho Villa hiding in Mexico's mountains, Sun Yat-sen ensconced in China, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk embattled in Turkey; during World War II, he renewed an intimate working friendship with Douglas MacArthur and later wrote...
...disorders is small. The trouble lies not so much in the pills or their makers and takers as with doctors who prescribe them without doing a thorough physical examination and getting a good case history. One of the severely disabled patients at the Neurological Institute had never had a stroke, but both her mother and father had died of strokes. Many doctors would say that she should never have been put on the pills...
...laws of distant kin, acquaintances, agents and NBC ("30 unbroken years, and I've enjoyed every dollar of the relationship"). His wardrobe girl is an invalid who works from a wheelchair. He has seen to it that his old sidekick, Jerry Colonna, semipar-alyzed by a stroke, gets plenty of work...
Chandler favors loud colors, even garish ones, and sometimes employs intentionally rough and unsubtle comic-strip techniques. His broad-stroke work often recalls Rouault. He himself especially admires and acknowledges the influence of Picasso, Rivera, Braque, Beckmann, Buffet, and the Negro muralist Charles White...
...shall pray as if everything depended upon God," he said when he assumed his office. "I shall work as if everything depended on me." And so seriously did he take his vow - so firmly did he place his mark on American Catholicism - that when he died of a stroke in Manhattan last week, Francis Cardinal Spellman, 78, was without question the most influential cleric...