Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, of influenza in London; Cinemactress Ruth Chatterton, of two broken fingers caught in an automobile door in Los Angeles; Senator Robert B. Howell of Nebraska, of "rundown condition" in Washington, D. C.; Roy T. Davis, U. S. Minister to Panama, of stomach trouble in Washington, D. C.; Herbert Nathan Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan drygoods); after a heart attack in Manhattan...
...writing a radio colyum for the New Yorker, datelined "No Visitors, N. Y." Last week U. S. readers of the London Evening Standard perceived how an anonymous staffwriter aided by square-faced David Low, peerless New Zealand-born caricaturist, had made amusing copy out of Britain's influenza epidemic. The writer was personified as "the celebrated journalist Mr. Terry," a character assumed occasionally by several humorists of the Standard's staff...
...Norris, chief medical examiner, ordered dissection of the brain. His assistants hardened the organ, sliced it microscopically thin. The microscope showed that Schaaf, before he went into his last fight, had been suffering from a chronic or subacute inflammation of the brain. In January he had an attack of influenza. Dr. Norris reported: "The cause of the inflammation cannot be known with certainty, but it may be referred to the ... influenza with a reasonable degree of probability." When monstrous Primo Camera understood what this meant, he was vastly relieved...
...time. Within a week the group had complete new equipment, proceeded with more treatments. Last week another disaster occurred. As Dr. Simpson in Montreal prepared to read a report, his collaborator, Dr. Kislig, died in Dayton. Autopsy showed progressive heart failure following influenza. Dr. Simpson caught a train, left the paper for another to read. Radiotherm treatments at Dayton will continue...
...managerial gibberings which have attended his death. The field is wide open for trenchant innuendo. His handlers had little to win, much to lose by a victory over Carnera. He was allowed to enter the ring after a brief training period of ten days which followed all attack of influenza. The association of these two facts admittedly proves nothing; according to medical advices it had nothing to do with the boxer's death. But it focuses an ugly light on the managerial claim, that "He had to die to prove he wasn't a faker...