Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Evangeline Booth, the Salvation Army's retired international commander, finally recovering from a long siege of flu, had four friends in to dinner on her 82nd birthday...
...Flu & Palaces. The pilots were blond, boyish Clifford Evans, 27, an ex-A.A.F. pilot, and stubby, pot-bellied George Truman*, 39, a veteran flying instructor. Last summer they wangled two used Super Cruiser airframes from Piper Aircraft, engines from Lycoming, Gyrosyn compasses from Sperry and radio, equipment from Bendix. They ripped out the passenger seat behind the pilot's seat and installed 100-gallon tanks, packed in a few charts, radio spares, a can of dope (i.e., glue) for repairing the wing fabric, one good suit and a white shirt apiece. Early in August, they kissed their wives...
They caught their share of bad weather and good parties, more than their share of good luck. They came down with flu in Greenland. They almost missed Iceland, got in just before the weather closed down tight. Their progress through Europe was slowed by sightseeing and weather (said Mrs. Evans: "He's going to have to make up some awfully good excuses...
Wagnerian Soprano Helen Troubel went into a Dallas hospital to lick a "stubborn low-grade" infection after an attack of flu...
...Thomas Francis Jr., 47, of the University of Michigan, who isolated influenza virus B and helped develop a vaccine against the disease, for leadership in the worldwide fight against flu...