Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just up & about again, McCarty last month rode in a Shriners' parade. He caught a cold which developed into pneumonia. The pneumonia cleared up, but McCarty's weakened heart could not stand the strain. Last week, at 41, he died...
...writers, Carl Bixby and Don Becker, succumbed to listener demand and married Chichi to Stephen Hamilton, a crippled sweetheart. Later on they realized their mistake: "It didn't fit in with a young girl who was footloose & fancy-free. So we had their baby die of pneumonia after Stephen had taken him out in the rain, and then killed him off with a heart attack. For two weeks afterward we kept Chichi off the air in the interests of good taste, and that was that. He was never mentioned again...
Joey told her story with simple feeling. The last five years had not been easy ones. Shortly after her arrival at Carville. her illness was complicated by an attack of double pneumonia. Said she: "I was sick. I was tired, I was disgusted, and there would be moments when everything seemed wrong and without purpose. And then, the thought would come: I have to give an accounting of my time. What have I invested? What have I saved? What interest have I earned? Where are my profits? No, I simply could not stop. I must go on. What would...
Sugar & Salt. Charlie's wife came down with pneumonia. For a while the Steens . owed $300 in grocery bills, had no money to buy milk for their ten-week-old baby; they fed him weakly sugared tea instead. Winter evenings, Steen foraged for coal at a nearby railroad. Then, when things looked blackest, Bad Luck Charlie's luck began to turn...
Impatient Patient. How ill was Sir Winston? Having survived front-line skirmishes and capture in the Boer War. three serious bouts with pneumonia, a collision with a New York taxicab (in 1931), not to mention most of the 20th century's great military and political crises, he apparently was not taking his illness too seriously. He had to be bulldozed into taking a rest at his country home. Chartwell, and, on his very first weekend there, presided over a jolly luncheon party which included Lord Beaverbrook. "Well, at least I've pushed that fellow Christie off the front...