Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December Major General Laurence Keiser, who had commanded the 2nd Division since its arrival in Korea last summer, was relieved of his command. The official reason was that Keiser had pneumonia. Keiser was replaced by red-faced, outspoken Major General Robert B. ("Uncle Bob") McClure, a top staff man in the Pacific war who had once remarked that the "smell of a dead Jap is perfume to my nostrils...
Died. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 45, who pursued a sordid international course as Communist revolutionary, San Quentin jailbird, roving OGPU agent and fugitive, then told all in 1941's bestselling Out of the Night; of pneumonia; in Chestertown, Md. After barely escaping deportation, German-born Author Krebs served as a combat soldier in the Pacific, became a U.S. citizen and president of a Chestertown P.T.A...
What is this, he asks the Minister of Agriculture, about a cut in the sugar ration for bees? "Pray let me know what was the amount previously allotted . . . what is the saving?" When, during Churchill's illness with pneumonia, his doctor prescribed a novel for light reading, he chose Defoe's gamy Moll Flanders, "about which I had heard excellent accounts, but had not found time to test them." Having finished it, he gave it to the doctor "to cheer him up. The treatment was successful...
Died. John H. Fahey, 77, head of the New Deal's Home Owners' Loan Corp. (1933-48); of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. A onetime (1909-10) vice president of the Associated Press and editor (1903-10) of the Boston Traveler, New Hampshire-born John Fahey was a co-founder of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, between 1933 and 1936 lent $3,093,451,321 to 1,017,821 householders (one-fifth of the period's mortgage loans), ended HOLC up in the black...
...walks to the gallows, steps aside to avoid a puddle. This instinctive human reaction overwhelms Orwell with "the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide." How the Poor Die is a severely underwritten memoir of Orwell's stay (as a pneumonia patient) in a Paris ward in the '20s, which leads him to the wry conclusion that "it's better to die violently...