Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a bout with pneumonia, Old Football Hero "Red" Grange, 48, now a Chicago insurance executive and television commentator, was ordered to spend four more weeks in the hospital...
Died. Arthur Capper, 86, onetime governor of Kansas (1915-19), longtime Republican U.S. Senator (1919-49), publisher (Capper's Farmer, Household); of pneumonia; in Topeka, Kans. Starting as a typesetter, Capper became a reporter, began investing, wound up owning two newspapers and eight farm journals (combined circ. 4,700,000) and two radio stations. Politically, he stood for farmers' benefits, isolationism (until the U.N., which he supported), prohibition (he sponsored hatchet-swinging Carry Nation's sweep through Topeka on a bar-smashing tour). He retired from the Senate...
...Secretary of State James E. Webb, is seriously considering leaving the department himself. In three years, Businessman Webb, a 45-year-old North Carolinian, overhauled the State Department's administration, made sense out of the old welter of overlapping bureaus and responsibilities. Ailing since an attack of virus pneumonia several months ago, he wants a rest...
...With the Best Chance." In October, Wherry was operated on for cancer of the liver. Last week, in George Washington University Hospital, Kenneth Wherry, 59, died of pneumonia...
Died. Kenneth Spicer Wherry, 59, U.S. Senator from Nebraska since 1943, Republican floor leader since 1949; of pneumonia; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...