Word: pneumonia
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DIED. FRANK GORSHIN, 72, rubbery-faced impressionist-actor who channeled his passion for film idols, nourished as a teenage film usher in Pittsburgh, Pa., into a 50-year career in Las Vegas clubs, on TV and in more than 80 movies; of lung cancer, emphysema and pneumonia; in Burbank, Calif. With his apery of Al Jolson, James Cagney and Marlon Brando, Gorshin was a regular on The Ed Sullivan Show, where he was a guest the night the Beatles made their famous U.S. TV debut. ("Look at all these kids that came to see me!" he said backstage...
...Crimson has been without the star sophomore attackman all season. Cohen was sidelined in the preseason with pneumonia. Just as he was about to return to practice, Cohen broke his right humerus playing basketball—diagnosed at the time as a potentially season-ending injury...
DIED. MARIA SCHELL, 79, stunning, soulful international movie star of such films as the 1954 World War II drama The Last Bridge, Luchino Visconti's White Nights and, opposite Gary Cooper, the 1959 western The Hanging Tree; after a battle with pneumonia; in her hometown of Preitenegg, Austria. Schell, who sporadically withdrew from acting because she suffered from physical and emotional strains, was the subject of the acclaimed 2002 documentary My Sister Maria by her brother, actor-director Maximilian Schell...
...DIED. EZER WEIZMAN, 80, pragmatic, influential former Israeli President; after a bout of pneumonia; in Caesarea, Israel. Wry, caustic and often chauvinistic?he once responded to a young woman wanting to be a combat pilot by asking, "Have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"?he guided the Israeli air force, a unit he built and commanded from 1958 to 1966, to its rapid, preemptive victory in the six-day Arab-Israeli war. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hardliners and, through his rapport with then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, helped cement that country...
In 1994, Kelli Lawless, 24, of O'Fallon, Mo., waited for test results she hoped would solve the mystery of her failing health. For years, she had been plagued by a string of illnesses including sinus infections, pneumonia and two bouts of shingles, but her doctor had never performed a test that would have been routine for someone else with those symptoms. "He said that people like me--a white, middle-class, non-drug-using, college-educated woman in Iowa-- didn't get HIV/AIDS." Alas, in Lawless's case, he was mistaken. Testing showed that she was positive...