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Died. George Arliss (real name: George Augustus Andrews), 77, actor and cinemactor who was responsible for the general misapprehension that Disraeli, Richelieu, Voltaire, Wellington and Hamilton bore an astonishing facial resemblance to one another; of a bronchial ailment; in London...
Died. Oliver K. Bovard, 73, austere, softspoken, longtime managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and power behind his paper's famed crusades against political and industrial corruption (Teapot Dome, Tom Pendergast, Union Electric) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Louis. He paid his men well, fired them only for indifference or disloyalty, ruled his roost with icy justice. One of Bovard s ex-copyreaders, fired for sneaking P-D copy to a public utility before publication, once asked for his job back, pleading that he "had to live." Asked Bovard...
Last week, in his County Dublin home at Booterstown, Irish Tenor John McCormack died, at 61, of bronchial pneumonia...
...whom had a baby in her arms. Confronted with a practical politician's dilemma-to kiss or not to kiss-he escaped neatly by explaining that he had a cold. Back in his hotel room he added another reason, "I might have dropped one." The nominee's bronchial tubes enriched the conversation further during his stay. When Andrew Jackson Higgins, famed boatbuilder, asked after his health, Truman said, "I've just got the heaves, Andrew. Have a chair...
...calls it house dog disease, because only house dogs get it. The sick dog usually comes from a household where someone has a cold. The illness begins with a sore throat, mouth and bronchial infection with a little fever. Most dogs recover in a week, but some go on to a frequently fatal encephalitis with convulsions, tics, paralysis, dizziness, forgetfulness or blindness. Of 309 cases of house dog disease Dr. Whitney reports in detail, 58 died of encephalitis...