Word: pneumonia
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Both squads figure to be in peak physical condition. Last week a report out of Potsdam had it that captain Roger Purdy was in the infirmary recuperating from pneumonia, but the latest news has him taking part in the last few practices. They recover fast in Northland...
...great trombonists of all time, a lumbering Texan famed since the late 1920s for his staccato, yet melodic instrumental style and a sad, reedy singing voice that made classics of songs of the period (Basin Street Blues), new favorites of old standbys (The St. James Infirmary); of pneumonia and cirrhosis of the liver; in New Orleans...
Died. Jefferson Davis, 44, New Orleans dockworker who on Nov. 5 received two chimpanzee kidneys to replace his own hopelessly diseased organs; of pneumonia; in New Orleans. Davis' new kidneys operated well, but the immunity-suppressing drugs given him lowered his resistance, and a holiday cold turned into pneumonia...
...Spencer Tracy, 63, in his Los Angeles home, with a continuing respiratory ailment complicated by diabetes; Cincinnati Reds' Manager Fred Hutchinson, 44, in his physician brother's Seattle home, with a malignancy in an undisclosed area; Brendan Behan, 40, in Dublin's Meath Hospital, with pneumonia and head injuries after he was found lying in a pool of blood. He had been out celebrating his exit from the Royal City of Dublin Hospital...
...once fancied himself a not-quite Hemingway-class boxer), World War II accounts of the North African campaign, countless articles on the Wayward Press, and one notable dissection of Chicago: The Second City, whose cry, Liebling insisted, had changed from "Lemme at him" to "Hold him offa me"; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...