Word: ulcerated
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Next day Wilson's wife Jessie, just back from the Washington hospital where she underwent treatment for an ulcer, spoke up with a frankness worthy of her husband. She was "indignant" about the President's comment, she told the Washington Star's enterprising Newshen Isabelle Shelton. "I think the President should have stood back of Mr. Wilson instead of spending his time commenting on how wonderful Foster Dulles has been. I think Foster Dulles is a good man too, but I don't think that he has done any better than a lot of other...
...farewell banquet was accorded Financier John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the Court of St. James's, at the Long Island estate of his sister, Joan Whitney Payson, co-owner with Whitney of the famed Greentree Stable. Next day, in a Manhattan hospital recovering from gastric ulcer surgery, the diplomat-to-be's wife, Betsey Gushing Whitney, heard a special tape recording of the tributes paid her husband at the dinner. Among the notable banquet guests: CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley and high-styled Barbara Gushing Paley, Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard...
THAT'S no ulcer . . . That's rot-0the rot that works in the belly of all you big shots." Thus, the hero of the latest novel about U.S. business, Company Man by John G. Burnett (Harper; $3.50), castigates his spineless section chief for caving in to the pressure of office politics. On the surface, Author Burnett's tale, revolving about a big U.S. airline, is merely one more in the long list of novels, from Frank Norris' The Octopus to Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt and John Dos Passos' The Big Money, that show businessmen...
...beat Byrns as a New Dealing independent, was elected seven more times, won respect from both parties as Democratic whip (1949-53), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign and Interstate Commerce (since 1953), and as a campaigner for public health measures; after surgery for a duodenal ulcer; in Nashville...
...after softening them up with a funny story and a few wisecracks would harangue the crowd with spellbinding oratory that so magnified every itch, twitch and minor pain inherent in every human being that half his listeners thought they had incipient cancer, tuberculosis or at least a chronic ulcer. Stevenson's speeches are filled with the same wisecracks, half-truths, distortions and exaggerations designed to scare the susceptible into believing that the Democratic Magic Elixir is their only hope...