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Fieser now attribution his narrow escape to his decision to give up smoking and a "lucky early diagnosis." Upon discovering that Fieser had a cancerous tumor, the professor's doctors postponed the operation long enough for a thorough physical examination which revealed a weakened heart, bronchitis and emphysema. The doctors told his wife Mary that it was doubtful he'd pull through. "But," says Fieser grinning...
Peter Fuld was a German refugee who had become a Canadian citizen and created a thriving telephone-equipment business in London and Frankfurt. Three years ago, at 41, Fuld died of a brain tumor, leaving an estate estimated at $28 million, plus an exwife, an ex-fiancée, his mother, other relatives and numerous friends-all with assorted claims to his money...
...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...
Doctors satisfied themselves that Lucy's hiccups were not a symptom of neurosis. Uremic poisoning, hiatus hernia and tumor irritation-all possible sources of chronic hiccups-were dismissed after examination. Next the diagnosticians studied Lucy's phrenic nerves, which control the spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm-in effect, the hiccup mechanism. X rays appeared to indicate irritability of the right phrenic nerve. Stopping that nerve from functioning seemed the only thing that might help...
...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...