Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill, entering the House for the first time since his recent recovery from pneumonia, early rose from the Ministers' front bench, squarely faced the opposition, lowered his taurian head and snorted: "This question should normally have been addressed to the Secretary of State for War, but since the Honorable Member, no doubt from those motives of delicacy which are characteristic of him, has preferred to put it to me I will answer it myself. ... I am advised that it [the letter] does not fall into the restrictions ... of the King's Regulations as it deals with political...
Died. James J. ("Jimmy") Collins, 73, baseball's onetime and perhaps alltime greatest third baseman; of pneumonia; in Buffalo. Famed for his fast defense against bunts, he once had the pleasure of tossing out Bunt-Attempters Wee Willie Keeler, John McGraw and Hughie Jennings in succession. He managed the Boston Red Sox to victory in 1903-8 first World Series, quit professional baseball in 1911, invested in real estate, went broke in the depression, managed the Buffalo Parks Department teams...
Worried Britons learned last week that the indomitable Winston Churchill, who was 68 last November, had snorted, heaved and fought his way through a mild but dangerous attack of pneumonia. Said the Evening Standard: "The most crustacean of Mr. Churchill's critics will join in the rejoicing at the news. . . . The anxiety of the past few days has not received much public attention but it has been widely and deeply felt...
According to Dr. Marshall's textbook on pneumonia, there are "relatively few recoveries" among those above the age of 60, "and indeed it kills so quickly and mercifully that it has been called the 'old man's friend.'" As usual, Winston Churchill scorned the ordinary, weathered the crisis and last week was pronounced out of danger. A bulletin on the state of his health added that the Prime Minister had been allowed to have his first cigar...
Died. Marine Corps Colonel Harold Douglas Shannon, 50, commander of the ground forces in the Battle of Midway; of pneumonia; in San Diego. A much-decorated World War I veteran, he won the D.S.M. for his Midway defense. Of the four-day battle he observed last fall: "The only Japs that landed on Midway were dead ones...