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Died. Harry Gordon Selfridge, 90, Wisconsin-born merchant prince who built London's largest department store; of pneumonia; in London. Retiring at 46 after piling up a fortune with Chicago's Marshall Field & Co., Selfridge took a trip to London, was shocked by staid British selling methods, opened the store on Oxford Street that grew rich and famous through high-pressure advertising...
Died. Evalyn Walsh McLean, 60, Washington's most famed and lavish hostess, owner of the reputedly unlucky 44¼-carat Hope Diamond (estimated value: anything up to $2 million) ; of pneumonia; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Doctors give part of the credit to penicillin and other new drugs; e.g., deaths from pneumonia, 1930's big killer of youngsters under four, have been cut to onefourth. But medicine has made progress all along the line. Thanks to public-health campaigns and education of parents in diet and child care, there have been far fewer deaths from contagious diseases, tuberculosis, appendicitis, diarrhea, intestinal disease, rheumatic fever...
...Most of the major killers-tuberculosis, kidney disease, pneumonia-are far more prevalent among Negroes. Heart disease and cancer are the killers that cause a higher percentage of deaths among whites; but the cancer rate among Negroes is rising...
...shouts of bobsledders in the snowy street outside. She ate well, listened to the radio, had her daughter read her the Kansas City Star and the Congressional Record, as usual. Both her legs were in plaster casts, but she felt little pain, showed no signs of contracting pneumonia...