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...aged man and two aged women abandoned hope of rescue, plunged from the third-story windows to death on the sidewalks. Firemen came in time to snatch six through windows and down the ladders before the gale-whipped flames enshrouded the building. The ailing, the infirm and the bedridden in Isaac Hull's boardinghouse had no chance...
...lived upwards of 500 years, it retired to await death in the high branches of an oak or palm tree. From there a young phoenix would rise to carry the spent body of his parent to the altar of the sun. By last week Maud Gonne MacBride was 81, bedridden in a rambling old-world mansion outside of Dublin. The De Valera government, for which and against which she had fought so bitterly, had grown complacent and tired. For years Dev's party, the Fianna Fail, had known no effective opposition, but last month Ireland's Joan...
...history books, Dr. Dunbar hints, are full of examples of psychosomatic illness. British Prime Minister William Gladstone developed a "diplomatic cold" whenever he faced a difficult or distasteful debate. Elizabeth Barrett, browbeaten daughter of a tyrannical father, was a bedridden invalid for 20 years-and was cured almost overnight when, at the age of 40, she met and married Robert Browning. In the Ode to a Nightingale, observes Dr. Dunbar, John Keats wrote a perfect, succinct description of a psychosomatic patient: "I have been half in love with easeful Death...
Baltimore's Calvert School calls itself "The School That Comes to You." It operates a mail-order business that sends complete grade-school courses to the isolated and the bedridden all over the world. Calvert got into the business back in 1897, when all its own pupils were quarantined in their homes by a whooping-cough epidemic. Since then,, mothers all over the world have switched to Calvert. Its courses, complete with textbooks, paper, pencils, pictures and prints-and parent-proof instructions on how to teach, tell stories, deal with disobedience and sex problems-have inched up the Yangtse...
Ever since his trip to Mexico, Harry Truman had been waiting for another chance to visit his 94-year-old mother, bedridden in Grandview, Mo. with a broken hip. Last week, to celebrate the beginning of his third year in office, he made a flying trip home...