Word: pneumonia
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...seven automaking brothers, second to die this year, who joined the Fisher Body Co. in 1914, shortly after two elder brothers had founded it to produce the first all-weather auto body, became a top General Motors executive when the company was absorbed by G.M. in 1926; of pneumonia; in Detroit...
...tried dozens of drugs for tuberculosis, finally in 1952 directed the testing of two newly-developed isoniazids on 92 seemingly hopeless patients, saved every one, a breakthrough that put the doctor out of a job when Sea View and other TB hospitals closed for lack of patients; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...March in Denver, where surgeons and physicians from the University of Colorado Medical Center and the nearby VA Hospital have pooled their talents in a transplant team. By now the Denver group has done four transplants, with one patient living 22 days after the operation, when he died of pneumonia. The Boston and Denver teams have traded reports of their progress, and their methods are remarkably similar, though they differ in some details...
Died. Lyman Beecher Stowe, 82, grandson of Novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), grandnephew of Abolitionist Preacher Henry Ward Beecher, author of the lively 1934 account of the crusades and peccadilloes of his forebears, Saints, Sinners and Beechers; of pneumonia; in Fairfield, Conn...
...traded his sea legs for wings, bagged 35 Nazi planes as an R.A.F. Spitfire pilot, returned home to organize 250,000 veterans into the "Torch Commando," which disbanded in 1953 after an unsuccessful campaign to change the racist policies of Prime Minister Daniel Malan, a distant relative; of pneumonia; in Kimberley, South Africa...