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In May 1954, Hazelden purchased the rights to Twenty-Four Hours A Day. Close to 5,000 copies were sold in the first year. Close to 5,000 copies were sold in the first year. Today, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has sold over eight million copies in 30 countries and is a staple of many twelve-step groups .
Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [1] Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis . [ 1 ] Around 10% of latent infections progress to active disease that, if left untreated, kill about half of those affected. [ 1 ]
On January 19, 1977, her last full day as first lady, Betty Ford used her training as a Martha Graham dancer to jump up on the Cabinet Room table. White House photographer David Hume Kennerly took a photo of her on the table. [72] [73] [74] Gerald Ford did not know about or see the photo until 1994. [75]
The Betty Ford Story is a 1987 television film [2] directed by David Greene and written by Karen Hall. This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life [3] written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford. [4] The film originally aired on ABC. [5] [6]
Betty: A Glad Awakening is a memoir by Betty Ford with Chris Chase. The book was published by Doubleday in 1987. It is the second autobiographical work published by the wife of former US President Gerald R. Ford , the first being Betty Ford: The Times of My Life from 1987. [ 1 ]
A Nebraska health department is investigating more than 500 possible exposures to tuberculosis linked to an active case at a YMCA in Omaha.
Clarissa Brooks, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1927; Charles Brockden Brown; Charles Farrar Browne; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1861; Jean de Brunhoff; Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), American author and poet, contracted tuberculosis in 1988; he recovered, losing 60 lbs. He died of leukemia.
The disease is not limited to human characters, but can help to achieve grim social realism in a novel. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle portrays tuberculosis as common among cattle reaching the meat-packing plants of Chicago. Sinclair wrote that "men welcomed tuberculosis in the cattle they were feeding, because it made them fatten more quickly".