Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Charles Clinton Spaulding, 78, a former slave's son who became one of the richest Negroes in the U.S.; of pneumonia in Durham, N.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Against many diseases (e.g., pneumonia, tuberculosis) Metropolitan has shifted its line of attack in accord with the advances made by medicine generally. Against others, there is still need for fuller public information (e.g., earlier detection of cancer means more cures). And the battle against obesity (TIME, June 23) is still, as in the 1920s, using some of Metropolitan's liveliest life-saving copy...
Died. Mauno Pekkala, 62, postwar Premier of Finland (1946-48), who negotiated the hated mutual assistance pact with the Soviet Union; of pneumonia following a stroke; in Helsinki. He won national recognition for his work as acting director (1937-44) of the state forest service, less favorable notice for his latter-day fellow-traveling with the Reds...
...taut as piano strings. She throws hysterical fits, fluffs her lines on the set. Running off the unpromising dailies (rushes), Mike buries himself in booze and Benzedrine. The movie and the illicit love affair have a sudden downbeat ending. A sculptor lures Mollie off to Mexico and death by pneumonia. Even with this morbid added feature, the sneak preview of Mike's film draws laughs in the wrong places and he knows he has produced a flop, and probably his last picture. "It's a dying town . . . the last days of Pompeii . . . The Cadillacs are already beginning...
Died. Dr. John Dewey, 92, renowned American philosopher and educator, major prophet of progressive education ("learning by doing"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan (see EDUCATION...