Word: pneumonia
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Fern Leitman, 56, a longtime Florida resident, thought her repeated bouts of pneumonia were just bad luck. Doctors told Suzan King-Carr, 58, of Hobe Sound, Fla., that the spots on her lungs were probably cancer. Ida Mae Williams, 76, of Bogalusa, La., was informed that she had tuberculosis. Three women, three different diagnoses--all of them wrong. After years of ineffectual treatment, each woman learned that she, like thousands of other Americans, had developed a mysterious lung infection that mimics TB, seems to strike thin, white women in particular and can be permanently debilitating. Most unsettling of all, they...
...theater and TV screens around the world, schooling a generation in the intricacies of righteous machismo. He made stars of Jimmy Wang Yu, Ti Lung, David Chiang and Alexander Fu Sheng, and mentored his assistant director (later action master) John Woo. When Chang died June 22, at 79, from pneumonia, the Shaw Brothers studios paid for the funeral of its most prolific, pioneering auteur. In Hong Kong, movie spirits are at half-mast...
DIED. HOLLY SOLOMON, 68, influential, experimental art dealer and fashionista who championed unknown artists like Robert Kushner and helped make New York City's Soho neighborhood into a center for new art in the 1970s; of complications from pneumonia after battling cancer; in New York City. Known as the Pop Princess for her admiration of Pop Art, she was the subject of famous portraits by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, below...
Ciannavei, an Army veteran who battled multiple sclerosis for 30 years, died of congestive heart failure and complications from pneumonia...
John U. Monro ’34, dean of the College from 1958 to 1967, died March 29 in LaVerne, Calif. due to complications from pneumonia...