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...first general audience since recovering from his 57-day siege with a stomach ailment, Pope Pius XII, borne into St. Peter's Basilica on his portable throne, was greeted by thousands of schoolchildren who cheered him for ten solid minutes. Earlier last week Vatican officials again dismissed the rumor that the Pope plans to retire to a monastery because of failing health. For the first time, however, they reportedly admitted that he had despondently considered relinquishing some of his duties last February when his sickness was gravest...
Died. William S. ("Pete") Newell, 75, shipbuilder and board chairman of the Bath (Me.) Iron Works Corp.; of a heart ailment; in Bath. During the shipbuilding slump of the '20s, Newell saved Bath's yards by rounding up fresh capital, later revolutionized the industry with the "sunken bathtub" method i.e., constructing ships in basins resembling drydocks from which they float out on completion...
...Author Murray, Malanism is not a problem of politics or Anglo-Dutch disharmony; it is just one of the symptoms of a chronic disease which she calls "the African sickness"-a complicated ailment that has become so "normal" in South Africa that those who suffer from it are usually the last to know...
Making plans to hang out his lawyer's shingle in Chicago this fall, Adlai Stevenson was troubled again by his old kidney ailment, canceled several speeches, eased himself into a Chicago hospital bed, early this week had a successful operation...
Died. Crown Princess Martha of Norway, 53, wife of Crown Prince Olaf, daughter of Sweden's late Prince Carl and frequent White House guest while a refugee from Nazi-occupied Norway in World War II; of a liver ailment; in Oslo...