Word: sanatoriums
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...Scotsman danced around him singing. A canal boatman offered him a ride to Tonawanda. He gave up suicide, set out the next day to pawn his watch. On the way he met brother Paul, who tearfully pressed a roll of bills into his hand and sent him to a sanatorium for rest...
...both Michael and his double were arrested. Last week Michael was found guilty and sentenced to death; his impersonator was acquitted. He could not, said the court-martial, be held responsible for his actions. As Michael was marched off to await execution, his ailing double departed for a tuberculosis sanatorium on the outskirts of Athens, where $1,500 worth of treatment might save his life...
Interlude (Westport International), a story of despairing patients in a T.B. sanatorium, was one of the last Swedish-made movies to star Viveca Lindfors before she was imported to Hollywood by Warner Bros. Viveca gives great warmth to an otherwise chilly semidocumentary. Hasse Ekman, who helped write the screenplay, directed and played the lead, shrewdly explores the often depressing theme: the patients, feeling that they have been played a dirty trick, by fate, gradually transfer their resentments to the doctors and nurses who are trying to heal them...
...TIME, March 4, 1946), which was a smiling-through-tears account of how she and husband Bob struggled to raise poultry. The Plague and I (now in its third printing) is all about how Betty succumbed to tuberculosis (in her post-Egg days) and was incarcerated in a grim sanatorium for 8½ months. A whimsical vivisection of almost every organ in the female body, and a description of the life & death around her-"small dry coughs, loose phlegmy coughs, short staccato coughs, long whooping coughs"-it has all the frank appeal of a public hanging...
...opoulos, able commander of the government's Seventh Division, was killed when his car blew up on a road mine. Athens police were alerted by a report of Communist forces only 15 miles from the capital. This, however, turned out to be only a small band plundering a sanatorium for food...