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Only 12,000 U.S. Army men have died of disease since the war began (compared with 62,670 in World War I and 336,216 in the Civil War). The Army has had 70 pneumonia deaths...
...election (for fear that Britons' wartime memories would dim). Just as insistently the Labor Party had urged delay till autumn (in hopes that they would). Quipped Labor's Arthur Greenwood of Max and Brendan: "M & B* can save a man once-it saved Winston when he had pneumonia-but M & B a second time can ruin a chap...
Died. Denyse Clairouin, raven-haired French literary agent, translator of D. H. Lawrence and Tagore, and an ardent organizer of anti-Nazi resistance; of pneumonia (on March 12 but just reported), contracted when the Nazis gave her a brutal five-day ride in an open freight car from the Ravensbruck to the Mulhausen concentration camps...
...political boss of Moscow; of a heart ailment; in Moscow. Politico Shcherbakov's death, on the first day of European peace, was pronounced "Rus sia's greatest wartime casualty." Died. ThomasMontgomery Howell, 63, tiny, bigtime fisherman and Wall Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain pit"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1931, Iowa-born Trader Howell manipu lated a squeeze on the Chicago market, grabbed 70% of all visible corn, made himself a cool million, got temporarily suspended. In 1934, Angler Howell reeled in a 956-lb. tuna to cop the world's record. Of his fishing...
Shortly after completing this 23-page verse-play, yo-year-old Robert Frost came down with pneumonia, lay wondering if God were punishing him for having written it. Happily-and justly-he recovered. A poet whose work has often been implicit drama, Frost is outright dramatist in A Masque of Reason-and still the New England philosopher asking questions about the nature of things...