Word: pneumonia
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Died. Eugene O'Neill. 65. American playwright (Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness!); of bronchial pneumonia; in Boston (see THEATER...
...greatest playwright in U.S. history died last week. The scene of his death, as depressing as any in his 47 plays, was a Boston hotel, where he had been living for the past two years, too sick to write. By his bedside, when a final attack of pneumonia felled him, were his doctor, a nurse, and his third wife, with whom he had quarreled bitterly (two years ago he unsuccessfully tried to have her committed to a mental hospital). .His children were dead or far away. His name, once a clarion call, threatened to be drowned out by the tinny...
...Neill died of bronchial pneumonia. He had been ill with Parkinson's disease, an ailment which causes a form of palsy, and was unable to write for several years...
Work at the Rockefeller Institute on pneumococci (the commonest pneumonia germs) led Manhattan-born Chemist Heidelberger to devise precise ways to measure antigens and antibodies and also a mysterious something in the blood, awkwardly called "complement." There had even been doubt as to whether complement was a substance or a state...
Died. Dan McCarty, 41, Democratic governor of Florida since January, wealthy Ft. Pierce cattleman and citrus grower; following an attack of pneumonia; in Tallahassee, Fla. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...