Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Gerard Swope, 84, white-haired, sparky longtime president of General Electric Co.. whose charge to the top began in 1893 as a dollar-a-day student helper ("a dirty, oily job") in the Chicago plant; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. An M.I.T. electrical-engineering graduate, Swope took the G.E. helm in 1922, consolidated its holdings over the next 17 years, diversified the company, built it into a $300 million corporation. Together with his radical board chairman, Owen D. Young, he was responsible for some of the most far-reaching labor policies in American industry, put into operation (after...
Died. Gerald B. (for Burton) Winrod, 57, big, bellicose self-styled "Reverend," race-baiting bigot, editor of the Defender, the monthly propaganda whip of his pseudo-religious organization, "The Defenders of the Christian Faith;" of pneumonia; in Wichita, Kans. A deep-voiced radiorator who flourished in the Father Coughlin-Huey Long era, Winrod thundered his rabid invective from his Wichita headquarters, clipped his mustache like Hitler's, lumped Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower as members of the "international Jewish banking fraternity" trying "to sovietize...
Eventually the kuru sufferer is completely helpless, unable to swallow, capable of only slight movement and feeble grunts. In a native hut, he dies of starvation, infected bedsores or pneumonia. At Okapa's hospital, Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas have prevented bedsores, and eliminated starvation as a cause of death by intravenous feedings. And still the patients die. No authentic kuru victim has recovered...
Died. Mahonri Mackintosh Young, 80, versatile sculptor, painter, etcher, one of Mormon Prophet Brigham Young's 300-odd grandchildren; of a bleeding ulcer complicated by pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Young taught (on and off since 1917) at Manhattan's Art Students League, kept within the realistic tradition, created two of his best-known works for his native Salt Lake City: Sea Gull Monument and Pioneer Monument...
...WILY's three hard-driving Negro disk jockeys, two will be replaced by white men, one will remain: Sir Walter Raleigh, whose haughty, sardonic British accent seems to make hipsters flip. Says Raleigh, as he lays on such "crazy wax" as O Bop She Bop and Rockin' Pneumonia: "Well, chaps, that's the way the mop flops. Lads and deicers, we're feeling rather geometric this afternoon, yes, indeedy, we have happy sounds coming up; a jolly good show, what...