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...almost as hard-hit; then the epidemic spread through Santa Cruz and Santa Clara to the Bay Area and Sacramento, until an estimated 4,000,000 Californians were laid low with fever, headache, cough, sore throat and aching muscles. Inevitably, in a few cases the flu led to pneumonia, mostly among infants or oldsters whose health was poor to begin with. Among the other victims was Susan Ann Lombardo, 26, the bandleader's niece. There was no way to tell when the California epidemic would pass its peak...
...Communicable Disease Center expected Type A to miss the Eastern states, or brush them only lightly, because they had outbreaks last year. So far, the C.D.C. has been correct. In the East, influenza B has attacked mostly the young and the old, with only a modest increase in resultant pneumonia. The Asian flu attacks all age groups indiscriminately, which explains the epidemic spread in California...
Died. Billy Rose, 66, Broadway's "Bantam Barnum"; of pneumonia; in Montego Bay, Jamaica (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...colleagues on panzer-style tactics, went into waspish retirement in 1933, and at various times embraced fascism, condemned Allied air raids in World War II, and sneered that Ike was "not a highly educated soldier," though he remained highly regarded for such studies as his On Future Warfare; of pneumonia; in Falmouth, England...
...health had been declining in recent years, and just before Christmas he went to Houston's Methodist Hospital, where Dr. Michael DeBakey performed extensive cardiovascular surgery. While he was convalescing at his home in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Rose caught a cold, which rapidly developed into fatal lobar pneumonia...