Word: pneumonia
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DIED. JOHN RAITT, 88, Broadway baritone; of complications from pneumonia; in Los Angeles. To a later generation, he was known as the father of pop-blues singer Bonnie Raitt, but he became an instant star back in 1945 as Billy Bigelow, the antihero of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (their showstopping 7-min.-long Soliloquy was written for him). Raitt also starred in Broadway's Carnival in Flanders and the 1954 hit The Pajama Game...
DIED. PETER BENENSON, 83, British lawyer and pioneering human-rights crusader who founded Amnesty International; of pneumonia; in Oxford, England. As a teenager he raised money to help children orphaned by the Spanish Civil War. In 1961 he launched Amnesty International to help those he called "prisoners of conscience," after reading about two Portuguese students jailed for toasting liberty. He early on resigned his leadership of the London-based group--now with nearly 2 million members worldwide--but remained a passionate activist...
...admits he is a little nervous about the upcoming reading, especially having just recently recovered from pneumonia. “I did a reading in Worcester and there was a lot of smoke in the room, and the air conditioner didn’t work, and I just got so sick, I thought I was going to die,” he relates. “Then the guy behind me threw open the door, because they can see I was sick. All this air came in, and I just sat down on this stool there. The audience was very...
DIED. BOB MATSUI, 63, long-serving Democratic Congressman from Sacramento, Calif., whose humanity and level-headedness won him fans on both sides of the aisle; of pneumonia brought on by a rare, recently diagnosed bone-marrow disease; in Bethesda, Md. Confined at a California internment camp with his family and other Japanese Americans at the start of World War II, he fought for war reparations and had been expected to help lead the campaign against the President's proposed revamping of Social Security...
BENEFITS: Indirectly reduces production of stomach acid. RISKS: Headache, diarrhea, dizziness. May be less effective when used with antacids. The combination of Tagamet (cimetidine) and Valium can trigger confusion. Use of these drugs increased the risk of developing pneumonia 63% in a recent study...