Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After grittily ignoring his sneezes and sniffles for several days, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 79, was bedded down in Bonn with bronchitis, a fever of 104°, a later complication of bronchial pneumonia. At week's end, he was "considerably improved," but his countrymen were chillingly reminded that der Alte cannot lead them forever...
Died. Oscar Johnston, 75, longtime (1927-50) president of the British-owned Delta and Pine Land Company in Scott, Miss., one of the world's largest (38,000 acres) cotton plantations, member of the Democratic National Committee (1920-24); of pneumonia; in Greenville, Miss...
Died. Harry Leslie Chorlton, 85, artist and engraver who designed the Great Seal of the U.S. on the one-dollar bill, as well as a 3? stamp, Treasury seals, and U.S. coat of arms; of pneumonia; in Altadena, Calif...
...days after he left the White House. James Buchanan was 51 days short of his 70th birthday when his term expired. If Ike serves a full second term, he will hold the record for presidential longevity: 70 years and 98 days. The oldest President, William Henry Harrison, died of pneumonia at 68, one month after his inauguration. In a study of presidential life spans, Statistician Louis Dublin discovered that Presidents inaugurated before 1850 outlived their life expectation by 2.9 years. Those inaugurated between 1850 and 1900 failed to reach their expectation of life by 2.9 years, on the average...
...haymaking down on the farm. From his home at Libertyville, Ill. ailing Adlai Stevenson last week scratched out a note to ailing Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md.: "Dear Lyndon: I am sitting on my little farm recuperating from bronchial pneumonia. They are making hay out here. But now the tractor has broken down; the hay truck is broken down; the hay wagon has collapsed, dumping 50 bales of hay in the middle of the driveway, and my farmer has lacerated his arm on a hay hook. Besides...