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...Pacific War who led the first successful U.S. ground offensive against the Japanese at New Guinea's bloody Buna Beach, later commanded the famed "Amphibious Eighth" Army in more than 60 amphibious assaults, and was the first U.S. general officer to land in conquered Japan; of pneumonia following surgery; in Asheville, N.C. A soldier's soldier who believed that "the best way for a general to find out what is happening is to go up where the bullets are being fired," West Pointer Eichelberger saw his first combat in 1918 as a member of the U.S. Expeditionary Force...
Died. Nicola Cardinal Canali, 87, stern administrator of the minuscule (1/6 sq. mi.) Vatican City and of the church's tribunal for indulgences; of pneumonia; in his Vatican apartment. An Italian nobleman as well as a prince of the church, Cardinal Canali in 1958 mounted the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to crown the present, peasant-born Pontiff...
...ever faster pace. The microbe-killing sulfas came along in time to be dusted into the wounds of hundreds of thousands of servicemen in World War II-and were in turn pushed aside by antibiotics such as penicillin (1945) and tetracycline (1953). Tuberculosis and some forms of pneumonia were brought under control. Virus diseases have resisted cures, but medicine developed effective vaccines that drastically curbed more of them-notably influenza and poliomyelitis...
...society, an Italian peasant's son who emigrated to Manhattan as a 17-year-old bus boy (via Argentina, where he worked as Heavyweight Luis Firpo's sparring partner), later for three decades operated the city's most caste-conscious nightclub, El Morocco; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Karl Henry von Wiegand, 86, globe-trotting prototype of the old-fashioned foreign correspondent; of pneumonia; in Zurich (see PRESS...