Word: ulcers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suburban Maryland house, and after dinner he goes down there and pores over the contents of the briefcases until midnight. Sunday is the only day he reserves for his family: Wife Jane, Daughter Constance, 17, and Son Mike, 14. Freeman's hard-driving pace has brought him an ulcer and a spastic colon, and he sips milk and buttermilk at his desk to quiet his innards. Occasionally a spasm comes upon him, and he has to lie down on a couch in his office, rigid as a rake handle...
Divorced. By Ann Harding, 58, gracefully aging blonde cinemactress (The Girl of the Golden West): Werner Janssen, 62, world-traveling symphony conductor; on grounds of intolerable cruelty (she accused him of giving her an ulcer); after 26 years of marriage, no children; in Bridgeport, Conn...
...thrown more scores (27) than any other pro. Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is riding the crest of a spectacular comeback after a year's retirement, and Tittle's favorite receiver, Del Shofner, is the league's best end, so surehanded and deceptive that even with an ulcer (which put him in the hospital for a rest last week) he makes sieves out of most pass defenses...
...Little Theatrical." Stern develops an ulcer, ''a hairy, coarse-tufted little animal within him that squawked for nourishment," and is sent to a nightmarish rest home populated by a brilliant set of grotesques that might be right out of Hieronymus Bosch. Stern emerges to have a nervous breakdown, which Author Friedman manages to make both hugely comic and horrendously real...
...Doctors generally agree. Though bicarb is an antacid, daily doses upset the stomach's delicate acid-base balance, irritating the ulcer even more...