Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Bert Andrews, Washington bureau chief of the New York Herald Tribune, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for soberly exposing the State Department's star chamber loyalty proceedings; of a heart ailment; in Denver, while covering President Eisenhower's vacation...
Died. General Nicholas Plastiras, 70, oldtime revolutionary and war hero, and three times Greece's Premier; of a heart ailment; near Athens. Risen from the ranks, Cavalryman Plastiras served with distinction in the Balkan Wars (1912-13), World War I, the postwar anti-Bolshevist Allied expedition to the Ukraine, and Greece's war against the Turks, who respectfully nicknamed him the "Black Pepper." When Greece was disastrously beaten by Turkey (1922), Plastiras helped oust King Constantine, whose regime was blamed for the defeat. In 1933, Plastiras staged another coup to forestall a Royalist comeback, ruled as dictator...
...Though ill with a circulatory ailment, complained the Yugoslav press, Cardinal Stepinac refuses to leave his remote Croatian village and travel abroad for medical treatment-just as he refused to go to Rome last winter to receive his red hat from the Pope, fearing that Tito would never allow him to return...
Died. Dr. Frank Howard Lahey, 73, internationally famed surgeon and founder of Boston's Lahey Clinic; of a heart ailment, 17 days after he assisted in a bile-duct operation on Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden; in Boston...
Hollywood, troubled by 3-dementia and TV tremens, has another ailment: wanderlust. In "the film capital of the world," only 27 pictures were in production last week (as against 33 a year ago). But there were 48 rolling in Italy and 13 in Mexico. "The industry," said the A.F.L.'s Hollywood Film Council, "is committing suicide by letting production go abroad...