Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planted 200 Victory gardens, studied 50 languages and dialects, done exercises graduated from toe-wiggling in bed to ten-mile hikes with full packs. The hospitals find that under the A.A.F. system 1) 25% fewer men have relapses; 2) convalescence from certain acute, contagious diseases (e.g., virus pneumonia, scarlet fever and measles) has been...
Died. Max Reinhardt, 70, famed theatrical producer (The Miracle); of paralysis and pneumonia, after a stroke; in Manhattan. Born near Vienna, the solemn prodigy with the wire-grey pompadour clicked in his first stage role (1893), soon became Berlin's outstanding director. Once praised for the intimate drama, at his Salzburg Festivals (begun in 1920) he out-dreamed a Barnum with his decor, employed huge casts and invited huge guest lists to his Castle Leopoldskron. Celebrated in the U.S. for The Miracle (1924), Jewish Max Reinhardt was reduced to Paris poverty in the early days of Nazidom, made...
...best anti-t.b. drug. Three good points about Diasone: it is only slightly toxic, therefore can be used in fairly large quantities with safety; it is as good as sulfanilamide in curing streptococcus infections in mice; it is almost as good as sulfadiazine in curing type II pneumonia. The big question: Will Diasone help human patients...
...Donald Dennis has become the father of another baby girl. That makes two now . . . Arthur Bornfriend has quieted down considerably and hasn't time for billiards anymore. You shouldn't have to be told that he's a married man now . . . John Gobeille got back from his 10-day pneumonia leave Tuesday looking well rested. He has been moved back to company Charlie . . . In conclusion it might be remarked that it seems almost unbelievable that company Baker has finally become company Baker. It seems like only yesterday (to coin a phrase) that we lined up full of awe and confusion...
Died. Patrick Austin ("Paddy") Nash, 80, both Nash and dash of Chicago's famed Kelly-Nash political machine; of pneumonia; in Chicago. Son of an Irish immigrant contractor, short, derbied Nash moved early to the West Side, whose con trol he gradually took over from his political tutor, the 28th (then 14th) Ward's famed Roger Sullivan. Until nearly...