Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after a month's bout with virus pneumonia and a heart ailment, former U.S. Senator Blair Moody. 52, of Michigan, died suddenly in the University of Michigan hospital at Ann Arbor. A onetime Washington correspondent for the Detroit News, Democrat Moody was appointed to Arthur Vandenberg's seat by Governor G. Mennen Williams in 1951 and lost it to Republican Charles Potter in 1952. To millions of TViewers across the nation, he was remembered as one of the three rambunctious "Young Turks" (the others: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and "Soapy" Williams) at the 1952 Democratic Convention...
Died. Mrs. Helen Eakin Eisenhower. 49, wife of Pennsylvania State University President Milton S. Eisenhower, sister-in-law of Dwight D. Eisenhower; of complications following pneumonia; in State College...
...Hillary, 34, who one year ago reached the top of Mount Everest with Sherpa Guide Tenzing Norkey, was bat tling an unexpected threat to his life on another peak. After breaking a rib while rescuing a climbing companion on lofty (23,800 ft.) Mount Baruntse, Hillary fell ill with pneumonia. Aided by oxygen and penicillin sent from a nearby U.S. expedition, he was presumably being carried down from the 22,500-ft. heights of a glacier by fellow mountaineers...
Died. William March (full name: William Edward March Campbell), 60, Alabama-born novelist best known for his bitter novel of World War I, Company K (1933), and his newly published horror tale, The Bad Seed (TIME, April 12); of pneumonia; in New Orleans...
Died. Major General (ret.) Oliver P. Echols, 62, who, as chief of Army Air Forces materiel in World War II, helped boost plane production from 15,855 aircraft in 1941 to 69,930 in 1945; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif...