Word: pneumonia
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Died. General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, 67, India-born World War II commander of the British First Army, who led his fellow veterans of Dunkirk across North Africa from the west, captured Tunis in 1943; of pneumonia; in Gibraltar, where he had served as governor and commander in chief until his retirement...
...White House announced that Sir Winston Churchill will make an "informal" U.S. visit with Old Friend Dwight Eisenhower next month. The trip was postponed a year ago after Sir Winston came down with pneumonia. Earlier last week Cigar Chomper Churchill, about to fly home to England from the French Riviera, jauntily puffed on a cigarette, a rare indulgence for him, but he was back on big black stogies by the time he reached London Airport...
Died. John ("General") Sailing, 112, one of the two surviving veterans of the Civil War, sometime railroader, farmer, logger, horse trader and moonshiner, who served three years as a Confederate private, mainly digging saltpeter for gunpowder in the hills near his lifelong home in Slant, Va.; of pneumonia; at a clinic in Kingsport, Tenn. Mountaineer Sailing, a rocking-chair pacifist ("Wars are all part of some scheme"), outlived the last Union soldier-Albert Woolson, who died in Duluth, Aug. 2, 1956-but not the Confederacy's Walter W. ("Old Reb") Williams, who lives in Houston and is the Civil...
...Stubbs, a Guy Gannett conservative. The breach between Stubbs and Roger Williams widened into an open feud. "Stubbs didn't care a hoot about improving the paper,'' said Jean Gannett Williams, who did. Last fall, worn out by refereeing the quarrel, Jean collapsed, was hospitalized with pneumonia. A long convalescence gave her ample time to think...
Carrying on the family tradition, Eleanor McClatchy seems acutely aware that only the untimely death of her brother Carlos of pneumonia in 1933 put her in charge. "It's scary," she says, "when you think how much the people rely...