Word: pneumonia
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Although he doesn't want to alarm the University by proclaiming an epidemic, Dr. Bock warned that colds should be treated with considerable care this winter, as their chances of developing into pneumonia are much higher than usual...
Reader Workman (Nov. 10, 1924) thought that TIME showed bias in referring to Methodism as a sect; ED. said he preferred sect to denomination because it was a four-letter word. Reader Goler advised us-correctly -that Airman Wilbur Wright died of typhoid, not pneumonia, as TIME had said. A brief dissertation on the subject of Cain's wife led to a longer one on Calvin Coolidge's mistaking (in a speech) a hit by Baseball's Walter Johnson for an error by Shortstop Jackson. ED. agreed that it would be silly to choose a Chief Executive...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose wife was hospitalized in Boone, Iowa, with pneumonia, went to a White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. hospital, with a bad cold. Reports from both hospitals: improving satisfactorily. The new Chief of Staff (see ARMY & NAVY), unable to return to Europe to tidy up his affairs there, could not accept in person a little present from the Scottish people: an apartment of his own (with elevator) in rambling Cul-zean Castle on the Ayrshire coast...
Joan Fontaine, warm-blooded Hollywood heroine of Frenchman's Creek, was bedded in Manhattan with pneumonia and pleurisy, but reported "getting along very nicely...
Died. Lieut. General Alexander Mc-Carrell ("Sandy") Patch, 55, defender of Guadalcanal, veteran tactician whose monument was his U.S. Seventh Army's "left hook" from the Riviera north around the Alps, south into Austria; of pneumonia; in San Antonio. A disciplinarian with "a temper like the devil before dawn," Sandy Patch also had deadpan wit and a soldier's knowledge of Kipling. A month before he died, he got the top job of his soldiering lifetime: architect-in-chief -of the postwar U.S. Army...