Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wickedness & Wheezes. Liz Taylor beautifully ghastly after her severe siege of pneumonia and in no mood to hide it capped the evening by staggering gracefully onstage, supported by Husband Eddie Fisher, to accept her Best Actress award (nominally for the margarinal Butterfield 8 but actually, wise guys said for the pneumonia and for such past successes as Suddenly, Last Summer). Upstaged, Burt Lancaster meekly mumbled off with his Best Actor award (for Elmer Gantry). Earlier, Peter Ustinov (Spartacus) had received the award for Best Supporting Actor and had made the evening's only parsable acceptance speech Shirley Jones (Elmer...
Died. James Melton, 57, handsome strapping (6 ft. 2½ in.), Georgia-born tenor who hit his peak in the 1940s with the Metropolitan Opera and such radio shows as The Telephone Hour; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A practical-joking extravert who once had an ambulance deliver him to a party on a stretcher. Melton got his first job by bellowing melodically outside the locked office of Impresario Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, who unlocked the door, hired him on the spot. Almost as well known as his voice was his $250,000 collection of vintage autos, including a one-cylinder...
Among the diseases under study are viral pneumonia, infectious mononucleosis, and toxoplasmosis. Students who participate in the program will be notified if the tests show that they have been exposed to these diseases. The results of the study will appear in a medical journal...
Back from London and her near fatal battle with double pneumonia, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 29, headed west for "a few months in the sun." Her left leg-much punctured from intravenous feedings, blood transfusions and antibiotic injections-was swathed in bandages, her tracheotomy wound covered by a high collar. Stoicized Liz: "I'll have my necklaces redesigned a little higher to cover up the scar-sort of diamond and pearl Band-Aids...
...runny nose. She went back to work-imprudently-and then went back on tetracycline. It took another week for her to feel human again. Other victims who tried to shoulder a full work load too soon got into more serious trouble. One Manhattan physician developed a double viral pneumonia, with a fever of 104, and coughed up blood...