Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital, nursing his recently fractured thigh, George Bernard Shaw, 94, confided to a visitor: "I don't think I shall ever write anything more." Otherwise, said his doctors, their patient was doing well; he was allowed to leave his bed for 90 minutes a day to take wheelchair tours of his flower beds (see cut) and soak up the autumn...
...hospitals, undergone 25 operations. But she never let her big, throaty voice get out of form. She went back on the European U.S.O. circuit for a 30,000-mile trek while still in a cast, plugged away at sporadic nightclub and radio dates, first from a wheelchair, then on crutches...
...than chunky, she fails even to make the heroine attractive. Milland is a portrait of acute discomfort, and such able players as Tom Ewell and Louis Calhern squeak by in lesser assignments. Wasted in her first movie role, Broadway's Actress Phillips (The Cocktail Party) plays in a wheelchair, but walks away with every scene in which she appears...
...truck driver who had lost both legs had learned to stand and was starting to walk. A mother of two who had been scarcely able to lift a finger because of arthritis mastered the controls of a wheelchair, flexed her hands, learned to walk a few steps...
Seated in a wheelchair, with his right ankle in a cast, Vieira told his story: he was a weapons instructor in the U.S. military mission in Korea, had stayed on to fight the Communists. How had he been wounded? Explained the corporal quietly: "An artillery shell came over and the concussion knocked me to the ground. I started to get up and found my ankle was fractured...