Word: influenza
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...influenza epidemic and George S. Kaufman's first play opened in Manhattan in 1918, and the play was vastly less contagious. With dour glee, the 28-year-old writer went around advising people to avoid crowds-see Someone in the House." The flop was satisfying proof to Kaufman of "the gross inadequacies of the human race"-from which, as his collaborator Moss Hart observed, the playwright suffered daily. But he mined his suffering profitably; over the years he produced more memorable wisecracks and more hit comedies than anyone else in the U.S. theater. Last week. Kaufman died...
Treacherous Delay. The disease is not influenza. The guilty microbe is usually called "virus x" by laymen, and that is as good a term as any, for the virus is truly an unknown quantity. It apparently comes in scores or possibly hundreds of forms...
There was one bright spot in Schiele's life: his wife Edith, whom he married in 1915. But three years later, when Edith was expecting their first baby, she was stricken by influenza and died. "Edith is now better off than we are," Schiele told his friends. "With her all is well. We should not complain or mourn." Within three days, having caught the same disease, Schiele, too, was dead...
Generally accustomed to ignoring his aches, pains and hangovers, that durable old Slav, Nikita Khrushchev, 66, took to his bed with what was described as "a touch of influenza." One treat that Khrushchev was thereby obliged to forgo was a tea party given by Mrs. Khrushchev for Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, capitalism's foremost coexister, and Mrs. Eaton. Another was a massive "friendship rally" for Red China's departing Chief of State Liu Shao...
...choked off his singing voice, and the traditional "company cold" spread to Sir Lancelot (Robert Goulet), was even worse in Boston than Toronto. A chorus girl ran a needle through her foot onstage. Frederick Loewe, who himself suffered a severe heart attack two years ago, was temporarily felled by influenza. "We are all quitting," said one stage manager. "We will be replaced tomorrow by hospital orderlies...