Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Hugh John Lofting, 61, English born storyteller whose Dr. Doolittle series (about a kind country doctor and his talkative animal friends) has entertained children for nearly three decades; of a liver ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Died. Howard Myers, 54, publisher of ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, for nearly three decades an outstanding editorial crusader for prefabrication and spacious, airy housing; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...John E. Leach and Guy F. Robbins of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital questioned some 50 cancer patients. They found that 28%, when they first went to a doctor, had not had their ailment diagnosed correctly. The investigators were shocked to learn, furthermore, that half of the women patients with breast tumors were advised by their doctors to ignore the tumor "if it doesn't bother...
...death, promised to "haunt the hell" out of the Republicans who had started the fight to bar him from the Senate. As summer wore on he seemed to be on the road to recovery. But a fortnight ago his wizened, 69-year-old body fell prey to another ailment. He began running a fever and developed a blood clot in the lungs. Doctors at New Orleans' Foundation Hospital discovered that he was partially paralyzed...
Died. Mina Miller Edison, 82, widow (second wife) of Thomas A. Edison; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. She was a noted supporter of the G.O.P. (but not during Democratic son Charles Edison's successful campaign for governor of New Jersey), of the Chautauqua Institution (cofounder: her father, Lewis Miller), and of the temperance movement...