Word: pneumonia
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Died. Kent Cooper, 84, general manager of the Associated Press from 1925 to 1948; of pneumonia; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A bluff, hearty farm boy from Indiana, "K.C.," as he liked to be called, was the visionary who built the A.P. into the world's largest news-gathering service: in the 1930s he pioneered the widespread use of the Teletype ticker and the transmission of photos by wire and radio, but made his major contribution by breaking ties with the cartel of European news services that once monopolized overseas stories, instead marshaling his own army of reporters...
...Life of Riley, a series about a dopey factory riveter that so tickled the viewers it ran for eight years, bringing Bendix some $3,000,000 in salary-which, as he put it, "isn't bad for a guy who was on relief in 1934"; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
...rejection, notably in 1923, when he was forced to resign as Amherst College president for scorning standard disciplines in favor of social science and philosophy, and again in 1934, when his Experimental College at Wisconsin University (no grades or exams) was deemed infeasible and disbanded after seven years; of pneumonia; in Berkeley, Calif...
...gram." > Drs. Durovic and Ivy told the FDA that as of 1961 a patient had been "well and free of complaints for nine years since the start of Krebiozen," when in fact the patient died of cancer in 1955. - > Dr. Phillips certified that a patient had died of virus pneumonia in 1953 and an autopsy had been refused, when in fact she died of cancer in 1954 and an autopsy was performed...
...sleek, wealthy matron (Genevieve Page). He goes on to acquire the Pulitzer Prize, his own publishing house, part ownership in a shopping center-and bankruptcy, moral and fiscal. Finally, while penning another doorstopper to pay off his debt to a Swiss bank, he catches pneumonia. "Apparently fell into the stream while trying to make it to the road with his manuscript," says the doctor with innocent wit. In the book, the author dies, but in the movie he survives-presumably to prove that a doomed genius has as much right to live as anybody...