Word: tuberculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman court took pity on two children of Benito Mussolini, ruled that their health is too delicate for them to earn a living and awarded them pensions for life. Tubercular Jazz Pianist Romano Mussolini, 28 (TIME, Jan. 30), will get $112 a month; his sister Anna Maria, 27, partially crippled from a polio attack in childhood. $192 a month. The pair will not burden Italy's grandly evasive taxpayers; the support funds will come from their father's confiscated estate...
...diary starts in September 1890, when the Stevensons first settled down at Vailima, their home on Upolu. Louis, who was tubercular, had traveled the globe in search of health, and the Samoan climate seemed to help. Indianapolis-born Fanny had been a pioneer of sorts in California in post-Gold-Rush days. She was married to a restless clerk-soldier-prospector, later divorced him. The easy, outdoor life in Samoa was made for her. Her enthusiasm seems to have cheered Louis; it only annoyed his mother, who hated Samoa. Fanny wrote: "She dislikes the life here which we find...
...last week, there seemed little reason for Nicholas Ploumbides to remain loyal to Communism. Behind him lay 28 years of service to the Red cause; he had been No. 2 man in the Greek Communist Party and chief of its underground espionage system. For more than six years, the tubercular Ploumbides had hidden in the squalid back alleys of Athens, playing cat-and-mouse with police, while he and his illegal spy ring sent information across the border. His sister had been executed for Red activity; his wife Julia was in prison awaiting the same fate...
...Today it ranks seventh among causes of U.S. deaths, second among infectious diseases. - From Arizona, long a Mecca of the tubercular, comes similar evidence. The State Superintendent of Public Health, Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, reported last month that among non-Indians in Maricopa County (around Phoenix) are 11,820 suspected cases; 2,610 of them are active, and of these, only 220 are victims who went west for "the cure." Arizona has the worst TB death rate in the U.S., more than three times the national average...
...prize catch is a chapter from an unfinished novel by Michael Seide. a Brooklyn story writer with a rare feeling for the depression years. Some other standout pieces: a story about an Italian P.W. in a U.S. hospital, by Giuseppe (The Brigand) Berto; a grisly novelette about a tubercular who marries to escape a domineering mama, by the 21-year-old French prodigy, Jean-Baptiste Rossi; a lively critical comparison of Mickey Spillane and Georges Simenon by Charles Rolo. If half the 110,000 copies of New World Writing are sold, the publishers will break even. Apparently, they are optimistic...