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Last week, despite a setback from a bout of pneumonia, George Congrave was able to feed himself with a special knife-and-fork combination that enabled him both to cut and pick up meat with his left hand. He was using that hand to print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...
...your wife's pneumonia, Lord Godiva...
Died. Beniamino Gigli, 67, famed lyric tenor, an Italian shoemaker's son who took over Caruso's roles at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920, sang and acted with a peasant's gusto ("as naturally as a gamecock fights"); of pneumonia; in Rome. Refusing to take a salary cut during the Depression (other Met stars did), Gigli huffed off to Mussolini's Italy, predicted "something like a civil war" for the U.S. (he later denied it all), sang for top Germans during the war ("What would you have done?"). In a triumphant 1955 return...
Died. Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, 73, longtime secretary of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of the Consistory; of pneumonia following two cerebral strokes; in Rome (see RELIGION...
Died. Gerard Swope, 84, white-haired, sparky longtime president of General Electric Co.. whose charge to the top began in 1893 as a dollar-a-day student helper ("a dirty, oily job") in the Chicago plant; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. An M.I.T. electrical-engineering graduate, Swope took the G.E. helm in 1922, consolidated its holdings over the next 17 years, diversified the company, built it into a $300 million corporation. Together with his radical board chairman, Owen D. Young, he was responsible for some of the most far-reaching labor policies in American industry, put into operation (after...