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Died. Tallulah Bankhead, 65, the iridescent and irrepressible empress of show business, whose gravel-throated cry of "Daaahling!" was part of the language for nearly half a century; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Beautiful and honey-blonde, the daughter of a wealthy Alabama Congressman, Tallulah could count only three genuine hits in a career that encompassed literally scores of plays and movies: Broadway's The Little Foxes (1939) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) and Hollywood's Lifeboat (1944). Yet even to the flops she brought the kind of fierce power and impish delight that captivated friend...
...experience of other large cities was spotty. In Los Angeles, 15 members of the Rams' 40-man football squad gave up practice because of the flu. In Denver, the Hong Kong virus was blamed for a significant increase in the number of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia. Chicago and Detroit were holding their breaths...
Winter of the Flu. Ailing youngsters and oldsters run a considerably greater risk that the infection will move down from the upper respiratory tract (mouth, nose, throat and windpipe) to the lungs, causing a form of viral pneumonia, or that the viral infection will make the lungs prey to bacterial pneumonia. For this last complication, antibiotics are prescribed-sometimes in advance, in the hope of preventing...
...professional product in America take no chances at all. Kevin Brownlow's The Parade's Gone By... recalls that Ramon Novarro and Frank Currier doing the raft scene in Ben-Hur (1926) exposed themselves for three days to freezing winds and icy water at four hour stretches, narrowly avoiding pneumonia. But, when Wyler remade Ben-Hur in 1959 when technical proficiency could have compensated for weather variables, the scene was poorly synthesized in the studio with absurd process photography...
...points out. One patient who for years had been unable to walk or talk, and hardly able to swallow, recovered sufficiently to walk with assistance, to feed himself, and occasionally to speak. This improvement lasted during the year that he spent at Brookhaven. He died in another hospital, from pneumonia caused by getting food in his lungs, after he had been without L-dopa for some time...