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Died. Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail, 85, former New York Yankee president and sportsworld impresario; of pneumonia; in Miami...
...seems that everyone is sick these days. I know I am, with something that feels like a combination of Beri-beri and double pneumonia. Which is why I haven't been to any of the exhibits I'm talking about this week. Some of the names and titles sound interesting though, and are probably worth a visit...
...doctor's individual research is likely to produce the answer. Such obsession, Isselbacher says, is not the proper attitude with which to view an academic field that is so broad-based. Besides, Isselbacher says, "The natural history of the disease is such that, it isn't like pneumonia, that in just two weeks you can find out whether Drug A is better than Drug B." Even the simplest clinical experiments may require a five-year waiting period...
Died. John Shaw Billings, 77, former managing editor of TIME (1933-36), first managing editor of LIFE (1936-44) and later editorial director of all Time Inc. magazines; of kidney failure and pneumonia; in Augusta, Ga. (see THE PRESS...
...year-old man had a better chance than a newborn infant of surviving the next year. As Dr. Walsh McDermott, recently retired professor of public health at Cornell University Medical College, says, the two great triumphs of modern health care have been 1) the victory over the "pneumonia-diarrhea complex" that once caused half the tragic wastage of early deaths, and 2) the dramatic gains since antibiotics were introduced in 1937. Dr. McDermott can remember growing up in New Haven when every respectable undertaker had two funeral hearses-the familiar black one and a white hearse for children...