Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Francis Patrick Garvan, 62, one-time U. S. Alien Property Custodian, founder (1919) of Chemical Foundation. Inc., which gained control of the U. S. post-War chemistry by paying the Government $271,850 for seized German chemical and dye patents; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Winthrop Ames, 66, scholarly, devoted theatrical producer; of pneumonia; in Boston. At 7, Winthrop Ames thought H.M.S. Pinafore, newly come to Boston, a grand show. His father thought otherwise, declined an opportunity to invest in it. failed to share in the $1,000,000 the operetta reputedly earned. The theatre finally claimed him in 1004, first Boston's Castle Square, then Manhattan's ambitious, repertory New Theatre. He built the Little and Booth Theatres, headed a producers' committee to purge the stage of filth, helped rescue Gilbert and Sullivan operetta from the hands of school children...
...Extension, 16 years ago, an hour-old infant lay near death. A nurse, later adjudged to have been "tired," had bathed his eyes with the wrong solution of silver nitrate, 50% instead of 1%, which had blinded him, seared his cheeks with deep furrows, and with its fumes caused pneumonia. Though his doctor had given the infant up as hopeless, a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart, which maintained the hospital, obtained the doctor's permission to pin on the babe's clothing a medal of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Sacret Heart Order...
Within 72 hours the infant's blackened eyes were healed, his pneumonia gone, his cheeks unscarred. So, four years ago, testified Dr. Michael J. Horan and two colleagues, before a Chicago tribunal investigating the sanctity of Mother Cabrini, an Italian-born U. S. citizen who died in Chicago in 1917 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). The tribunal declared that the triple healing was "a wonder performed by supernatural power as sign of some special mission, and explicitly ascribed to God." In Manhattan last fortnight declared Dr. Horan, a Catholic: "The average man does not believe in miracles...
...Said he quietly: "I should like to live a more leisurely life and put into effect some long deferred plans." Last week at his home in Philadelphia's suburban, wooded Wyncote, death overtook the 69-year-old editor in his quest for leisure. He had been ill with pneumonia a week...