Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive; instead, students could "give once and give generously" and then forget about charities for the rest of the year. The reasoning behind this week's Combined Charities Drive remains basically the same, but most people today realize that a single solicitation for a number of charities creates an ailment almost as bad as the former rash of individual drives. Simply stated, student donations have fallen off so far in recent years that many philanthropies do not receive enough money from the annual College drive...
Died. Alice Joyce, 65, oldtime glamour queen of silent films (Beau Geste); of a heart ailment; in Hollywood...
...NOON. Murray Snyder, after consulting General Snyder. informed the press that the President's ailment was "stomach indigestion [and] is not serious." The President was resting, he added, and General Snyder planned to leave him soon. "I think you can judge from the fact that General Snyder is not going to remain in constant attendance that he does not regard this as serious." 2:30 P.M. Murray Snyder summoned the press for a terse announcement: "The President has had a mild coronary thrombosis. He has been taken to Fitzsimons Army Hospital." 2:35 P.M. President Eisenhower, supported by General...
...while he was lunching-nearly twelve hours after the attack. At noon-ten hours after the attack-General Snyder called two Army doctors in on consultation, and an hour later a cardiogram confirmed their suspicions. As soon as he learned the true story of the President's ailment, Secretary Snyder called a press conference. 6:05 P.M. General Snyder relayed word that the President was "resting well in the hospital and his condition is good." To a reporter's question Murray Snyder replied that Ike had never had a previous heart ailment...
...shelter, clothing and babies; the Blue Bolt "war and disaster complex of policies" insures against all misfortune-all except for the misfortune of being pronounced Class E and therefore "completely uninsurable." Most marvelous boon of all is the "Suspension Vaults." A policyholder stricken with "radiation" poisoning (a common ailment), or dying of disease for which The Company scientists have not yet found a cure, may sign his life into abeyance at the Clinic, receive a simple injection and get himself filed away inside a clear plastic bubble down in the deep-freeze vaults until the time, five...