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Died. Basil Radford, 55, British cinemactor, whose playing of a deadpan English cricket fan in The Lady Vanishes made him famous on both sides of the Atlantic; of a liver ailment; in London...
...first love, the musical. As Mrs. Anna Leonowens, tutor to the children of the King of Siam, she lived her part so intensely that she signed her personal letters "Mrs. Anna." Last month Gertrude was admitted to New York Hospital for treatment of what seemed to be a minor liver ailment (it was cancer). Last week, after a sudden crisis, the dancing feet were forever stilled. To her friends, it was as though the lights on Broadway had gone out. This week Gertrude Lawrence was buried in the shell pink satin dress she wore in The King and I sequence...
...whole field of vitamins, Merck's greatest triumph, by far, is its most recent. Its chemists extracted the elusive anti-anemia factor from liver in pure form: the ruby-colored crystals of vitamin B12, essential to growth and the most powerful medicinal substance known in nature. One thirty-millionth of an ounce a day is enough for a healthy man's blood-making factory; one three-millionth checks pernicious anemia...
...Philadelphia Zoo, where he has been looking with distaste at people ever since he was brought from French Equatorial Africa as a puny, 11-lb. baby, Bamboo, now a quarter-ton, 6-ft. evil-tempered gorilla, celebrated his 25th anniversary of confinement with a "birthday cake" made of cod liver oil, peanut mash and oyster shell, with a watermelon for dessert. The anniversary also chalked up a record. Bamboo, whether he likes it or not, is the only gorilla ever to survive a quarter-century in captivity...
...treason. Persuaded to write a 32,000-word confession, at trial became the first major Communist defendant to repudiate a confession. Disposition: hanged. Dimitrov did not last either. Displeased with Dimitrov's own Titoist tendencies, the Kremlin called him to Moscow for "medical treatment." Final entry: dead of "liver ailment...