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...Died. Anne Klein, 51, trend-setting designer of women's fashions famed for bringing sophistication to casual clothes; of pneumonia following a virus infection; in Manhattan. Petite and canny, Klein rose to prominence by injecting a new elegance into the traditionally cutesie junior-size dresses. She later broadened her scope to include everything from sweaters to shoes...
This was never a place of rehabilitation." In the freezing rows of three-tiered cell blocks-one called Michigan Avenue, another Broadway-Ranger Sara Conklin says (with some exaggeration), "Most prisoners died of pneumonia...
Died. Sessue Hayakawa, 84, Japanese-born movie villain of the silent screen who in 1958 received an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Colonel Saito, the fanatical, stony-faced prison-camp commander in The Bridge on the River Kwai; of pneumonia; in Tokyo...
...ease the current pollution standards it could be dangerous, "Elise M. Comproni of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said yesterday. "It's a choice now between getting pneumonia from the cold or bronchitis from dirty air. Hopefully enough low level sulfur fuel will be available this winter to eliminate the problem...
Survival Regimen. Although tuberculosis and pneumonia had long been the leading causes of death in the U.S., heart disease was fast overtaking them. White suggested that a special cardiology service be set up. As he later recalled: "My former teachers and the hospital chiefs warned me that I was entering an insignificant, special field and would never be heard from again." Undaunted, White expanded his service and research. From detailed studies of patients, he learned that a man could survive a heart attack not only for weeks or months but for a quarter-century-if he followed the White regimen...