Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After singing in the drafty National Guard Armory during the inaugural ball, Lily Pons, who already had a slight cold went to bed with a case of bronchial pneumonia...
...mysterious disease which starts like a common cold but kills its infant victims within hours was worrying doctors and parents in Tacoma, Wash. The sixth victim, three-month-old David Le Fever, was found to have died of double-edged pneumonia: simultaneous virus and pneumococcus infections...
Within little more than a year, however, Grace Vanderbilt, now in her mid-80s, was bedridden. Within two years she was blind. Last week, she died of pneumonia. Totally dependent on others in the last years of her life, and confined to the little world of her bedroom, she sometimes remembered the great days at Beaulieu. She would say to whoever was near by: "Come, let's go for a drive, darling." Then her companion, sitting down by Mrs. Vanderbilt's bed, would take her on an imaginary tour of Newport. "There's a sparkle...
...Press Is Notified. A few months ago, when he fell ill of pneumonia, he had his secretary reply to pressmen: "Mister Hughes says you're not to worry. He says that as soon as he's died he'll notify the press...
Died. William ("Billy") Morris Hughes, 88, Australia's World War I Premier and senior statesman of the Commonwealth; of pneumonia; in Sydney, Australia (see FOREIGN NEWS...