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...MEDICINE); Mississippi's segregating Democratic Senator James O. Eastland, 55, laid up in Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital with a stubborn case of influenza; West Germany's Minister of the Economy Ludwig Erhard, who celebrated his 63rd birthday getting congratulated in bed while recovering from pneumonia contracted on his recent trip to Cairo...
Deaths from influenza and bacterial pneumonia (hard to separate, because one so often complicates the other) were about 50% above average for January's first half, reported the U.S. Communicable Disease Center. In seven states and the District of Columbia the active flu virus was identified as the mutant Asian strain, A2-57. In seven other states the same strain was suspect, but not yet convicted on laboratory evidence...
...keeping the Communists at bay in the civil war that followed, inexplicably pulled out of a strongly fortified position in Manchuria at a crucial point in the war and went to live quietly in Hong Kong until 1955, when the Communists persuaded him to propagandize for them; of pneumonia; in Peking...
Died. Fausto Coppi, 40, Italy's idolized bicycle-racing champ whose zest and heart rate (30 to 40 per minute) helped him win the Tour d'ltalie five times, the Tour de France twice; of pneumonia; in Tortona, Italy...
Died. Edna Wallace Hopper, about 85, tiny (5 ft., 83 lbs.) turn-of-the-century musical star (The Girl I Left Behind Me, Floradora) who devoted her later years to preserving her youthful looks; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. When age finally forced her to leave the stage in 1920, Edna Hopper underwent a series of face-lifting operations, had a movie made of one of them, which she took on a lecture tour around the country. The lecture, which included a personal demonstration of how to take a bath properly, invariably played to a full house (women only), swelled sales...