Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handsome Negro who had 1) a bruised hip, 2) a swollen ankle, 3) a sore arm, and 4) only two days of rest. In other words, Gibson was practically in the pink. "He was born sick," recalls his mother, "and he got sicker. He had rickets, hay fever, asthma, pneumonia and a rheumatic heart. I hardly let him out of the house until he was four years...
Died. Cole Porter, 71, America's premier songwriter; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica (see Music...
...nation's No. 1 killer: heart, kidney and circulatory diseases, including strokes, which accounted for 55% of the nearly 2,000,000 deaths in 1962. The second-place killer is cancer (16%). The other major causes of death: accidents (6%), diseases in the newborn (4%), influenza and pneumonia (3%), diabetes (2%), congenital malformations (1%), cirrhosis of the liver (1%) and suicide...
...Britain's Prince Charles, 15, at an Aberdeen nursing home with a mild case of pneumonia caught while camping out with fellow Gordonstouners on the grounds of the family's Balmoral Castle; California Governor Pat Brown, 59, at his Sacramento mansion with a fibula fractured by stepping in a hole at a golf course, an accident that will keep him on crutches for six weeks ("But he wouldn't miss the Democratic Convention," said an aide, "if he had to crawl"); Oldtime Cine-comedian Stan Laurel, 74, at Los Angeles' Valley Doctors Hospital, where...
...reform-minded, pro-West politician who won worldwide notice in March 1946 when he stood before the U.N. Security Council and called attention to the illegal Russian occupation of Iran's Azerbaijan Province, raised such a storm that the Reds withdrew in the face of world opinion; of pneumonia; in Teheran...