Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last April, fiddle-footed as ever, he flew out of the Sahara, chasing down one more story from the Far East. But the hunt was over. Stricken with pneumonia in Tokyo, he was rushed by plane to a hospital in Zurich, his summer home. There, Karl von Wiegand died last week at 86, the last of his breed, a legend somewhat larger than life...
...society, an Italian peasant's son who emigrated to Manhattan as a 17-year-old bus boy (via Argentina, where he worked as Heavyweight Luis Firpo's sparring partner), later for three decades operated the city's most caste-conscious nightclub, El Morocco; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Gesell, 80, silver-haired, scholarly psychologist who founded Yale's Clinic of Child Development in 1911 to study abnormal children, soon realized that too little was known about normal children, spent the rest of his life observing them and writing about them in more than 25 books; of pneumonia; in New Haven. Conn. In his three best-known works. Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, The Child from Five to Ten and Youth: The Years from Ten to Sixteen, which were translated into 25 languages, Gesell explained behavior patterns from cradle through adolescence to generations of anxious...
...veteran who fought vainly for 17 years to clear his name after he was relieved by Winston Churchill as Britain's top admiral in the Mediterranean for allowing six French ships loyal to the Vichy government to slip through the Straits of Gibraltar and sail to Dakar; of pneumonia; in Beaminster, Dorset, England...
...must assume that he will return to Harvard," Allan added. Bethel, who is managing editor this year of Cambridge 38, which is published by the Yearbook, is ill with pneumonia and unavailable for comment...