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...office have left on the President's face. The smile is as bright as ever but the flesh has aged perceptibly. Colds have caused the President most of his trouble. Last April he was forced to remain indoors for two days with a congested nose and sore throat. In July a slight cold helped him lose two of the seven pounds which he had picked up during his sailboat vacation. In September another head cold and touch of fever again confined him to bed & study, and left a hangover which required a weekend in the sun aboard the Sequoia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: President's Health | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

Pretending that George Washington had come for a medical examination, Professor Walter Augustus Wells, Washington, D.C. ear-nose-&-throat specialist, worked up a medical case history of the First President. The finished "history" he published last week in Hygeia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: President's Health | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...life he frequently suffered from head colds, sore throat, headaches. Several times he was bed-ridden with fevers and lung involvements. Rheumatism kept him from attending the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia. In October 1787 he went to Boston with a severe head cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: President's Health | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

Died. Joseph ("Wee Joe") Devlin. 61, longtime Irish Nationalist leader, brilliant orator; of cancer of the throat; in Belfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...TROUBADOUR-John Tasker Howard-Crowell ($3.50). In a 70-year-old ledger in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital can be found the record of the death of Stephen Foster. The No. 1 U. S. songwriter, thin and wasted at 37, had fallen in his Bowery rooming-house, cut his throat, bashed his forehead. News papers took scant notice of the passing of the man who wrote "Old Folks at Home," "Massa's in de Cold Ground," "Nelly Ely," "Oh! Susanna," "Old Black Joe," "My Old Kentucky Home." Author John Tasker Howard, an expert on U. S. music, gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Songwriter Story | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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