Word: influenza
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Last week, seated in a wheel chair in Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was recovering from influenza, bull-necked Bob Wagner was baptized in the faith of Rome by Msgr. Robert F. Keegan, director of the New York archdiocese's Catholic Charities. Though born a Lutheran (in Nastatten, Germany) and raised in the U.S. a Methodist, Senator Wagner's conversion occasioned no surprise. His wife, who died in 1919, was a Catholic; his son, Robert Jr. was brought up as a Catholic. Obviously, Convert Wagner had been considering the move for some time. Said Msgr...
...feeling very happy," said a U.S. Public Health Service official last week, "about the influenza." This winter's epidemic has passed its peak...
...Army, which began vaccinating 7,000,000 G.I.s last fall, also breathed easier. Its new antiflu shots, which reduced influenza cases 75% in tests, had produced "encouraging results...
...three weeks, U.S. influenza cases reported to the Public Health Service jumped from...
When Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, named him Premier to succeed Ferrucio Parri, De Gasperi was ill with influenza. At first, propped up in bed, sneezing and rheumy-eyed, he haggled with fellow politicians. Then, pale and weak, he left his bedchamber for day-&-night sessions in the Chigi Palace. Punctually at 7 each morning a neighbor's phonograph woke...