Word: hernia
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...high jinks and wisecracks, and won it to become the first three-time titleholder. Last summer, for the first time in five years, Babe failed to be top-money winner on the women's pro circuit. She dropped quietly out of sight to be operated on for a hernia. During convalescence, her weight went up from 140 to 162 pounds, but she rushed back into action and won the second tournament she played in. As she has often said: "I don't see any use playing the game...
...Lausanne, Switzerland, Author Somerset Maugham, 78, moved to a hotel for a few weeks rest after undergoing a hernia operation...
Bernie Kafka, sophomore hopeful, also will be lost to the Crimson for the remainder of the season due to a hernia in the first week of practice...
Five weeks ago, just as his campaign for renomination as U.S. Senator in the Sept. 9 Wisconsin primary was beginning, Joe McCarthy entered Bethesda Naval Hospital for an abdominal operation (hernia of the diaphragm). Announcing that he would be laid up for two months, McCarthy retired to the north woods to sit out the campaign. But last week Joe was campaigning for his political life. He received reporters in Milwaukee's Hotel Schroeder, where he walked around in his shorts, showing the 2-ft.-long scar of his operation. Pouring warm Martinis from a bottle on his dresser...
During a checkup after his sinus surgery a fortnight ago, doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital discovered that Senator Joseph McCarthy needed still more patching, and ordered an operation for diaphragmatic hernia. After successful surgery, McCarthy was told that the original ban on his politicking would be extended from six weeks to at least two months. Among those who agreed to lend their voices and pinch-hit in his campaign for reelection: Arthur Bliss Lane, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Poland, who will make an anti-Communist speech...