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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1957
Page
6
Norman Hart Nell, the queen's dress designer, is reported recovering after an operation to cure paralysis in both arms. Doctors say he will be out of action for two weeks. Hart Nell had returned from a royal tour to France when he reportedly joked the paralysis stemmed from elbow strain from gardening.
The organist Brother Jean Deschamp aged 52 collapsed during the high pascal service at Notre Dame Des Victoires Cathedral. He suffered a fatal heart attack while playing during the solemn Eastern mass.
The American Cancer Society California Division asks the State Senate Public Health and Safety Committee for a rehearing on a proposed cancer quackery control bill. It challenges last week’s committee refusal to send the measure to the Senate floor, urging full Senate consideration to prevent fraudulent practitioners from operating in California through 1959. Senator Casper W. Weinberger sponsored the bill, which passed the Assembly 60 to 6.
Tokyo Police report a one day traffic record with 120 accidents. Two people were killed and 97 injured, 17 seriously. The figures come from Tokyo on Saturday.
Police searched the Toronto apartment of Leonard Ewing Scott, the Los Angeles stockbroker accused of killing his wife in 1955, seeking a rumored 75 000 cache. No money was found. Scott is held amid investigations in Canada and the United States.
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