Word: abscesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie is the occasion for a film comeback by Bellevue Hospital, which was also used for backgrounds in The Lost Weekend, The House on 92nd Street and The Naked City. Janet Leigh is probably the cutest lung abscess case ever to enter a hospital, and Ford, with his well-cut suits and his slave bracelet, gives Bellevue an elegant tone it often lacks in real life...
...Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Librarian Frances Tomlinson Gardner, of the University of California Medical School, says it is doubtful that Jackson ever had tuberculosis, as some biographers have thought. What fooled them, she concludes, was his bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery...
Died. Richard Tauber, 55, bemonocled Austrian-born tenor, top-ranking specialist in light-wines-&-waltzing schmalzing; of a lung abscess; in London. Tenor Tauber skipped from opera to Lehar operettas in the early '20s, rode lightly to European fame on such frothy flotsam as The Merry Widow, sang Yours Is My Heart Alone so many times (about 15,000) that it became a Tauber trademark...
...vapor-bath system which sprays the bather with various chemicals. Price: $2,200. It was represented as effective for diabetes, abscess of the lung, decay of the jawbones, blood poisoning, a long list of other ailments...
...Mattie Lou Pollard, 13, who goes to a one-room schoolhouse in Thomaston, Ga. and has had only one teacher all her life. (She lost on anarchy.) Third-place winner, Leslie Dean, 12, of Hawthorne, N.J., flunked on asceticism. Other toughies: hypotenuse, covenants, queue, knavery, cataclysm, colander, staccato, abscess...