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Valuable though less spectacular has been Dr. Williams' work in poliomyelitis, meningitis, influenza. Of late years she has been studying the streptococci which cause scarlet fever, erysipelas, puerperal (childbed) fever, septic sore throat. Last week she did not want to stop. New York physicians agreed that her work should not be interrupted. Dr. Williams' famed chief, Dr. Williams Hallock Park, who resisted a retirement move when he reached 70 last December, did not see how he could spare her. Said he: "We have very good bacteriologists in the department, but they haven't the breadth of view...
...worth of securities he had deposited in 1920 in the Bank of Westminster. Alfonso's eldest son, the easy-bleeding Count of Covadonga who renounced his rights to Spain's empty throne last year by marrying a Cuban girl, lay ill with influenza in Paris last week. To his bedside and to meet his wife-nurse for the first time went his mother, Victoria, and his two sisters...
...bystanders expected, but the first of 115 pieces of luggage. Few minutes later Mr. Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs and accompanied by his son John Jr., was driven up in a big, black sedan. Delayed at Pocantico Hills some three months by an attack of influenza, he was at last ready for his annual trip to his winter home at Ormond Beach, Fla. The announcement day before his departure that he had given up the trip was unexplained. Before his wheel-chair was hoisted into the Pullman a friend asked: "How do you feel?" "Splendid!" said...
...last New Year's Day citizens of Tokyo were dying of influenza at the rate of 90 per day. General Araki caught it. As the epidemic was brought under control he was said to have pneumonia. With Parliament about to reassemble this week Japan's politicians looked for a chance to reassert themselves as the War Minister lay abed. Japan's new Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, recently her Ambassador to Moscow, hoped for a chance to launch with caution a somewhat more conciliatory policy toward Russia...
...Four weeks after The Lake started its successful London run last March, Co-author Massingham, recovering from influenza and a nervous breakdown, was found dead in a gas-filled room...