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...daughter of a Greek immigrant family living in Daly City, Calif. The victim of a birth defect that prevented her from resisting infection, Maggie has had illness as her constant companion since infancy. During one 18-month period, she was hospitalized nine times with serious infections, including pneumonia. It was questionable whether she would survive childhood...
...Hand. Cleansers like pHisoHex are credited with checking virulent staphylococcal infections among newborn infants. "Staph" is a ubiquitous bug transmitted in the air and by human hands. In high concentration, some strains can cause skin and eye inflammations and can even lead to pneumonia, heart problems and bone disease. The U.S. Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, which has been checking rumors of rising rates of staph infections, reported that 23 hospitals across the country have experienced such outbreaks since the beginning of the year...
Anyway, when we last left me, I was in a California institution for the emotionally disturbed. In ascending order I was suffering from 1) underweight, 2) pneumonia, 3) debilitation, and 4) terminal sanctity. The first three were cured handily. My brother D.B. kept driving over from Hollywood with sandwiches and books; the books were supposed to cure No. 4. Perhaps they...
...more public occasions, he was often shy and visibly ill at ease. Last New Year's Day, during his final television appearance, he appeared frail and sick. He was. Shortly after the speech, he was assailed in turn by the flu, pneumonia and, on Jan. 3, a massive heart attack; last week his heart finally failed...
Died. Dame Gladys Cooper, 82, exemplar of British dignity on stage and screen; of pneumonia; in Henley-on-Thames, England. A beautiful chorine who became World War I's foremost pinup girl by shamelessly exposing her ankles, Dame Gladys early turned to the legitimate stage. After achieving stardom in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1922, she managed London's Playhouse Theater. Planning to spend three weeks in Hollywood making Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 melodrama Rebecca, she remained for nearly three decades, playing in such movie classics as Now, Voyager and Separate Tables. Then she became the matriarch...