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...operation to repair his left hip, fractured when the Perfesser slipped while alighting from a taxi during the scheduled week-long celebration of his 75th birthday; former Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda, 65, in Tokyo, with aftereffects from the radiation treatment used last November to rid him of the nonmalignant throat tumor that forced him to resign the premiership; Barry Goldwater, 56, in Phoenix, after a four-hour cervical laminectomy to repair an old injury to vertebrae in his neck...
Guidon of Life. Chagall, too, was to suffer. In September 1944, Bella came down with a strep throat while summering in upstate New York. He rushed her to a hospital in the Adirondacks, where, hampered by his fragmentary English, they were turned away with the excuse that the hour was too late. The next day she died. It took him nine months to begin painting again; in the meantime, he helped his daughter translate Bella's own memoirs of Russia, Burning Lights. Then, in 1945, he had recovered enough to begin work on the sets and costumes for Stravinsky...
...classic 1946 portrayal of Born Yesterday's gutter-voiced doxy, was thereafter typed as a comical broad (Phffft, Solid Gold Cadillac, Bells Are Ringing), though she was actually a sensitive, richly talented actress with a rather serious nature forever in search of the right serious role until a throat tumor took her off the boards; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...favorite role was in last year's The Killers. "In the opening," he recalls, "me and my partner sidle into a blind home looking for a doublecrosser. I get behind the head blind dame, grab her by the throat and push her almost to the floor. 'Where's Johnny North?' I breathe in her ear. So she tells us. I barge into the room knocking the blindees over-we used real ones-and I say, 'You Johnny North?' He says yeah. So we take out our guns and we put ten bullets...
First comes the lunatic (Stuart Whitman) who insists he is sane, yet cannot recall much about the night his wife was found with her throat slit. Joanne finds Whitman's story irresistible somehow, perhaps because her own marriage has been-well, difficult. She no sooner gives herself to her captor than fresh revelations come splashing to the surface...