Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musical Pajama Game as Gladys, the offbeat secretary who had (clang, clang) "Ss-s-s-steam Heat," but, after being hospitalized for diabetes and exhaustion in 1957, simmered down to become one of Broadway's most popular choreographers, arranging dances for Flower Drum Song and Funny Girl; of pneumonia, complicated by diabetes; in Manhattan...
...overactive. Where the "not-self" or foreign proteins come from to start this process is not certain, but the likeliest source is the original virus, acting on lymph cells. And Dr. Dameshek notes that in three familiar diseases definitely known to be caused by viruses-German measles, viral pneumonia and poliomyelitis-there is occasionally a temporary autoimmune phase with blood-cell destruction...
...disease: "threeday measles."* The usual symptoms are a mild sore throat, a light rash, and a fever of not more than 102°. In children, some swelling of the lymph glands is common but is usually not severe. Only rarely does the virus of three-day measles lead to pneumonia or brain inflammation. But it may occasionally be fatal. Last week three children's deaths associated with the current epidemic had been reported from Chicago, and a Connecticut teen-ager had died of encephalitis. Less predictable and less understood is a complication among adults: pain in the joints, sometimes...
...National Convention but one between 1904 and 1960, a multimillionaire real estate man and farmer who rejoiced in his title as the state's "Strawberry King" while pushing through as Governor a program, then considered "dangerously liberal," of workmen's compensation, vocational education, state income taxes; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia...
...Unitarian-Universalist Community Church, who campaigned against capital punishment and corruption (he played a key role in dethroning New York's Mayor James J. Walker in 1932), worked for causes ranging from birth control to nuclear disarmament, helped found the American Civil Liberties Union and the N.A.A.C.P.; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...