Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove the need for fewer symphony intermissions, or chaperoned opera boxes, but whatever the ultimate result, a lost frat pin for Heindel is the immediate one . . . With Hope's recuperation, we are again intact. The does have diagnosed his case as "strep" throat, but with Bunyard's pneumonia, Noel's flu, and Johnson's (either one) general condition, that's hard to understand--I guess this married life affects different ones in different ways . . . On the other hand, with a ski party planned in the 4th company this weekend, we don't recommend closing the infirmary altogether...
Died. Arthur Henry Kudner, 53, able Manhattan advertising executive; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles, Calif. He was president of his own firm (eighth largest in point of billing), which he started in 1935 when he resigned from the presidency of Erwin Wasey & Co., taking six big accounts with him (including General Motors and Goodyear). Sloganeer Kudner conceived "Better Buy Buick," "Eyes to the Future, Ears to the Ground" and "Victory Is Our Business" (G.M.'s prewar and wartime mottoes) and "athlete's foot." On his office wall was a framed quotation of the 1936 world's champion...
...Viceroy Lord Wavell's speed-up of food transport effective, foreign charity helpful. But all this was amelioration, not solution. The blown and shriveled masses who had not starved to death in the famine areas of northeastern India were scourged now by pestilence, by cholera, dysentery, malaria, dropsy, pneumonia. The famine had sharpened India's old and limitless needs: more rice, in steady supply; milk for her children; medicines for her sick; shelter for her homeless. Without these, thus far merely trickling in, there would be many added to the multitude of dead...
Gypsy Rose Lee wrote to Walter Winchell from her Fort Bragg sickbed: "Everyone had flu but me. I gotta get lobar pneumonia, and me with no lobars. At least, not big lobars like other girls...
Died. William Collier, 77, veteran actor and playwright; of pneumonia; in Beverly Hills, Calif. His best-known roles, in 35 years, were in Hoss and Hoss, Nothing But the Truth, The Patriot...