Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sign of the Ram) playing the part of a cripple, later toured in stage plays (The Glass Menagerie, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) that could be acted from a wheelchair or a couch. Her doctor gave the "primary cause" of death as a chronic kidney ailment and bronchial pneumonia, added "I felt she had lost the will to live...
Died. Admiral Keisuke Okada, 84, twice (1927-29, 1932-33) Japan's Navy Minister, onetime (1934-36) Prime Minister of Japan who opposed World War II; tried to brake Japan's runaway war machine; of pneumonia; in Tokyo...
Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and former U.N. truce negotiator in Korea, entered Bethesda Naval Hospital with a serious case of virus pneumonia complicated by anemia. At week's end his condition was reported "satisfactory...
...single antibiotic can produce harmful (sometimes fatal) results if the doctor using it is not extremely alert. This was the case with Chloromycetin. The surest cure for typhoid fever, and one of the best drugs for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, brucellosis (undulant fever), typhus and some kinds of pneumonia, it had been given to about 8,000,000 patients since it was first marketed in 1949. Then it was found (TIME, July 14) that some patients who had been getting the drug had died of aplastic anemia (in which the bone marrow is unable to do its normal...
...which broke up a dinner party. Slant-eyed Actress Veronica Lake had to cancel a summer-theater engagement in Framingham, Mass. because of a slight virus infection. Mrs. Johnnie Ray, bride of the cry-baby singer, left her husband on tour and went to a Buffalo hospital for a pneumonia cure. Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. was nursing a "moderate concussion" and a wrenched right shoulder after taking a header from his horse on a San Simeon bridle path. German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler was forced to cancel the rest of his Salzburg Music Festival appearances after a bout...