Word: influenza
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...Garson travelled 12,000 miles for her first cinema role. Hired by Louis B. Mayer after he saw her on the London stage, hustled to Hollywood, she was tested for a role in Dramatic School, instead spent her time in California having an appendectomy and weathering a siege of influenza. The flu proved lucky, since Dramatic School was a flop. MGM's present plans for her, barring illness, are, first, a part in Susan and God, then the lead in Myron Brinig's May Flavin...
Died. Julian F. Thompson, 50, playwright (The Warrior's Husband) and treasurer of McKesson & Robbins, who started the investigation that exposed President Coster as ex-Convict Musica; of influenza; in Manhattan...
Died. William Hallock Park, 75, specialist in the public health aspects of diphtheria, pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, sometimes called "the American Pasteur"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...into a tale of murder and suicide, the transition is almost as shocking as the events themselves. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the title story, brings Miranda back, separated from her husband, working on a newspaper during the War, learning that Wartime love affairs have less chance of survival than influenza victims...
Died. Frank Dwight Fitzgerald, 54, Governor of Michigan, who last fall defeated for re-election Franklin Roosevelt's great & good friend, Frank Murphy; of a heart attack following influenza; in Grand Ledge, Mich...