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Despite vigorous denials by the Kennedy family, medical detectives have long suspected that John F. Kennedy suffered from Addison's disease, a gradual atrophy of the adrenal glands that in its milder stages can be contained by cortisone (which Kennedy took), but in more advanced cases can result in low resistance to infection, chronic backache and kidney failure. Now a University of Kansas pathologist, Dr. John Nichols, 46, has concluded in the A.M.A. Journal that Kennedy did have it, that an infection stemming from it almost killed him after his spinal operation in 1954. Nichols bases his conclusion on an article he came across in the November 1955 Archives of Surgery, in which J.F.K.'s surgeon, Dr. James A. Nicholas, describes his preparations for an "Addisonian crisis" in an unnamed 37-year-old man who underwent spinal surgery at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery on Oct. 21, 1954—the same day and the same hospital where 37-year-old John Kennedy underwent the same operation.
It started off as a name for Beatle George Harrison's hairdo, became a discothèque, and will now exfoliate as a business empire. At least Sybil Burton Christopher, 38, major stockholder and drawing card of Manhattan's bon-ton discothèque Arthur, is making an Arthur franchise available to anyone with $50,000 and a suitably overcrowded location. Sybil expects to have spawned seven to ten little Arthurs within a year, will supply suggestions for layout and decor, publicity and the presence of such celebrities as herself and Friend Roddy McDowall at openings. No "small towns" need apply. Would-be Arthurians in Asbury Park, N.J. (pop. 17,800), and Buffalo (pop. 481,453) have already been turned down.
A veritable "enemy of Greek tourism," concluded Greece's ever-watchful military dictatorship when they heard some of the things Actress Melina Mercouri, 41, star of Broadway's Illya Darling, was saying about her homeland—like advising folks not to visit Greece until the soldiers go away. Therefore, Brigadier General Stylianos Patakos solemnly announced in Athens that the regime was stripping Melina of her Greek citizenship and all her property as well. "I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek," snorted Melina. "Patakos was born a fascist and will die a fascist. If he wants to make me a Joan of Arc, that is his privilege."