Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calls up Mikey, asks him to bring cigarettes, then won't let him in the door. Mikey talks his way inside, gets milk and cream for Nicky's perforated ulcer, says he'll help him out of town. Nicky is wary, but Mikey remains steadfast. It is the best way to keep track of Nicky and make sure that he finally meets up with the fat guy who carries a pistol in a brown paper...
...long in coming. As early as 1866, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, manager of a Battle Creek sanatorium, was prescribing generous doses of bran, which he claimed "does not irritate. It titillates." Kellogg and his family went on to make it big in cornflakes, while one of his ulcer patients, Charles Post, invented the coffee substitute Postum and a dry breakfast cereal he called Elijah's Manna. The name was later changed to Grape-Nuts...
Harvard basketball coach Tom Sanders (some people may remember that he starred for the Boston Celtics before he hit the big time at Harvard was there. He has seen Cowens a few times since he sent shock waves from TomHeinsohns ulcer all the way to the Los Angeles Forum. Although the leave of absence has been politely avoided in conversation, Sanders is as much an "expert" on Cowens's mind as anyone...
...always, Kissinger is fighting back-for himself and his policies. Although troubled by the fact that his wife Nancy had to undergo serious surgery for an ulcer, Kissinger last week made a swing through the West, and the heartiness of the reception buoyed his spirits...
Senator Fred Harris, 45. Gunshot wound from hunting accident at age 15 fully healed. No flare-up of a duodenal ulcer suffered in 1954. No recurrence of dizziness bout in 1972, diagnosed as acute labyrinthitis. Only real problem is weight (198 Ibs. on 5-ft. 8¾-in. frame), though he recently lost...