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...Bill Douglas had not given up easily. A toughened survivor of polio and a near drowning in childhood, plus an almost fatal riding accident and a weakened heart while on the court, he had been partly paralyzed by a stroke last New Year's Eve and was confined to a wheelchair. The lifelong liberal had hung on stubbornly. As Douglas told a friend only a few weeks ago: "I won't resign while there's a breath in my body -until we get a Democratic President...
...fever. Douglas was sped by ambulance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where doctors discovered that he had a urinary-tract infection. It was arrested, but physicians were shocked by the deterioration in Douglas' condition since he left the hospital last spring after a long convalescence from his stroke. An unusual nerve pain in the paralyzed areas on his left side had taken a severe toll. The Walter Reed doctors gave Douglas a blunt prognosis: You are not going to improve; you will always be paralyzed, unable to walk, in nearly constant pain; you will gradually deteriorate until...
Died. Clinton P. Anderson, 80, Secretary of Agriculture under President Harry Truman and a leading liberal Democrat in the U.S. Senate for nearly a quarter of a century; following a stroke; in Albuquerque. A former newspaper reporter and founder of an insurance company, Anderson was serving his third term as a Congressman from New Mexico when Truman, impressed by his detailed report on U.S. food shortages, offered him the Cabinet post; three years later, Anderson quit to make a successful run for the Senate. A member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy from 1951 to 1973, Anderson...
There is one bit of novelty in Every Man. The actor who plays Kaspar Hauser, the lead role, is billed only as "Bruno S." "S." was plucked by Director Herzog from an asylum be cause his own case history paralleled the Hauser story so closely. Such a stroke of casting is consistent with Herzog's previous work, which includes a film entirely populated by dwarfs. These works were also defended as metaphors for modern Germany. Some fresh excuses are needed...
Died. Hugo Zacchini, 77, a circus performer who, while musing about the trajectory of the grenades he had to duck as an Italian artilleryman during World War I, conceived his famous human cannonball act; of a stroke; in San Bernardino, Calif. Using a compressed-air cannon, Zacchini made his maiden flight (some 130 ft.) in Cairo in 1922. In 1929, John Ringling lured him to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where he performed for another 32 years...