Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gypsy Rose Lee wrote to Walter Winchell from her Fort Bragg sickbed: "Everyone had flu but me. I gotta get lobar pneumonia, and me with no lobars. At least, not big lobars like other girls...
Orson Welles recuperated with Rita Hayworth Welles (see cut) at Miami Beach-he from jaundice, she from the flu. Restless Actor-Director Welles said he had definitely added politics to his interests, reminded the press that he was Chairman of the Action Committee of the American Free World Association...
...fifth winter of war, the London stage is still up to scratch, if to nothing much livelier. Thirty-seven theaters are open, offering everything from ballet to burlesque. Business generally started out bravely in 1943, but crawled into bed toward the end because of the flu epidemic. Now it malingers because of people's concern for the second front. Nothing new and exciting this season bears a made-in-Britain label, but London has done pretty well for itself with goods from overseas and old finery out of trunks...
...their Broadway roles and the play's setting changed from Finland to Greece. Many Londoners, finding its tragic story too close to their own experiences, leave halfway through the play. The production had a troubled road tryout. Both Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne opened in Oxford with the flu ("It was wonderful," said Fontanne, "but like swimming under water"), eventually gave flu to the entire company. At the opening night in Glasgow there were nothing but understudies...
After a ten-day bout with flu, complicated by two messages to Congress and a fireside chat, Franklin Roosevelt was warned by his doctor to "ease up." Shunning his office, the President...