Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Richard de Rochemont, 78, executive producer of 'The March of Time," for 17 years the most popular documentary film series in the U.S.; of kidney failure and pneumonia; in Flemington, N.J. De Rochemont was credited with some of M.O.T.'s most memorable films, including The Story of the Vatican, the first full-length feature on the papal state made with the sanction of the Holy...
...astronaut and a jet pilot: a son, her first child, his second; in Houston. Within twelve hours of his birth, the first U.S. astrotot logged a helicopter flight after he developed breathing problems and had to be transferred to a second hospital. At week's end his pneumonia-like condition seemed to be under control...
DIED. Lucille Parker Markey, 85, queen of the sport of kings and owner of fabled Calumet Farm; of pneumonia; in Miami. A native Kentuckian, the Grand Lady of the Turf brought a sense of exacting style to the 850-acre, perfectly manicured (23 miles of white painted fences) Lexington farm, which she supervised after the death of her first husband, Warren Wright, in 1950. For more than two decades, Calumet dominated American racing, gathering the Kentucky Derby roses an unprecedented eight times, the Preakness black-eyed Susans seven times and two Triple Crown trophies with Whirlaway (1941) and Citation...
...helped nail John Dillinger and Kate ("Ma") Barker's gang, then in 1942 became a tenacious private investigator whose exhaustive files on criminal activity in the Southeast led to numerous indictments and helped bring about Senator Estes Kefauver's 1950 hearings on organized crime; of pneumonia; in North Miami...
...look back on past opening days, they all seem to blend together into one cold, rainy memory. Every year I trek to Fenway with visions of summer--and each year I leave certain that I've contracted pneumonia...