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...footnotes-the State Department's publication of the Yalta papers (TIME, March 28)-retired Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, onetime personal physician to Franklin D. Roosevelt and now head of the International College of Surgeons, stoutly denied that Roosevelt was a dying man at Yalta. F.D.R.'s wan appearance was no index to his general health, said Dr. Mclntire. The President had lost 15 Ibs. after a bout with flu and bronchitis, looked scrawny-necked because his shirt collars were needlessly loose. "He refused to buy any new shirts," recalled Mclntire. "The President was kind of tight about...
Before the session was minutes old, Prince Wan of Thailand observed that the foreign ministers might be more comfortable with their coats off. Off came the coats. Dulles rolled up his sleeves and began...
...stage. With no understudy to throw into the breach, the theater gave refunds to some 900 playgoers. Why hadn't the show gone on? Eartha, according to her agent, was ailing seriously with a kidney infection. Whatever ailed her, she was back in the show next evening, looked wan in her dressing room after beginning an indefinite routine of commuting between the theater and a Manhattan hospital...
...tongge-in-cheeke reporte did me delight ; For suche a wan, though percing to the rote. Be better far than manye a maudlin sote...
...Well, goodbye," she said, "I hope everything works out for you." She flashed a wan smile of encouragement, then tenderly, as the slipped out the door, she placed her broomstick in the corner. "You need it more than...