Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test tube and in laboratory animals, terramycin kills heavy growths of bacteria which cause one of the commonest forms of pneumonia, streptococcal infections, typhoid fever, and many intestinal and urinary tract infections. These are the disease germs against which antibiotics already in use are most effective. So if terramycin shows up well in the tests, now beginning, on humans, it will give doctors an extra weapon of a familiar type, rather than a basically...
Died. Alan Hale (real name: Alan Mac-Kahn), 57, veteran cinemactor (The Covered Wagon, Robin Hood), part-time inventor (a sliding theater seat); of pneumonia; in Hollywood...
...want to go home for dinner and the boss would say, 'Sammy, run over to WPCH like a good boy and knock out a couple of songs.' I'd go through blizzards with a sandwich in one hand. No wonder I wound up with double pneumonia every year. Ya know," he reminisces, "George Gershwin was also a song plugger in those days. But to be perfectly honest, he didn't go through as much as I did. He couldn't sing like...
Died. Ernest Poole, 69, author of the first Pulitzer Prizewinning novel (His Family, 1917); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Born into a wealthy Chicago family, Princetonian Poole (voted "Most Useless" by his class of '02) submerged himself in Manhattan's lower East Side to gather material on how the other half lived, won fame a dozen years later with a tale of New York's poor (The Harbor...