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Three weeks ago, Sarit went to the hospital with complications arising from cirrhosis of the liver and a lifetime of hard living. Among his other ailments: enlargement of the heart, high blood pressure, kidney disease, congested lungs. From his hospital bed, he sang to his wife an old Thai ballad that begins: "The love of 100 mistresses could not be compared to the love one has for his own wife." The U.S. Army surgeon general rushed to Bangkok to treat Sarit, but his heart finally gave...
...longtime alcoholism reached the point where he was unable to stand trial for fraud, lived his last years in and out of hospitals and on handouts; in Miami, where police found his body in a Skid Row room five to eight days after death, presumably of cirrhosis of the liver...
...Women are meant to be childbearing, not fur-bearing"), once ticked off celebrated Vegetarian Bernard Shaw for "breaches of the vegetarian faith" because Shaw was taking liver-extract injections; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Being a living legend in one's own lifetime is hard on the liver-especially in Paris. But it is even harder on the serious biographer who, several generations later, tries to separate subject and myth. Poet-Critic Guillaume Apollinaire, who died on the eve of the 1918 armistice, is an almost classic case in point. For the avantgarde, he loomed as a giant figure, an irrepressible rebel against stuffy conventions, a decisive experimental voice in modern French poetry, and the cultural midwife of the cubist movement in painting. For most of the rest of the world...
...friends. Alabama's Clyde Morton, at 65 the dean of U.S. breeders, has won eleven National Bird Dog championships, sells dogs to such fanciers as former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and British Cine-mogul J. Arthur Rank, once turned down an offer of $8,000 for Palamonium, a liver-and-white pointer that won the 1956 and 1959 Nationals...