Jazz veteran in hospital
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, Mar. 19. Mr Louis Armstrong, who is in the intensive care unit of a hospital in New York with a heart ailment, was responding to treatment and resting comfortably early today. The 70-year-old trumpeter and singer, for nearly half a century a dominant figure in the jazz world, was admitted to the Beth Israel Hospital on Monday evening, his doctor said in a bulletin on his condition.
Mr Armstrong was suffering from “aggravation of a previous heart disease,” and was transferred to the intensive care unit on Wednesday.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32560, 20 March 1971, Page 17
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