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...international conference. For the military sessions there were Generals Marshall and Somervell, Admirals King and Leahy, Vice Admiral Land of the Maritime Commission, and Major General Laurence S. Kuter, assistant chief of the Air Staff, pinch-hitting for General Arnold, who is abed in Washington with virus pneumonia. For the diplomatic conferences, U.S. representatives included Secretary of State Stettinius, Harry Hopkins, OWMR Boss Jimmy Byrnes, Ambassador Harriman, and a host of State Department experts...
Soon a small male figure in a fur-collared overcoat knocked, entered, pulled off his gloves, delicately measured Madame for alterations. Heaven be praised, it was all over. In a week Madame would have her gown. She might also have pneumonia, but she would not be shabby...
...filled with etchings by Rembrandt, who had the previous night appeared to him. . . . These . . . were probably Mr. Mount's own work, but produced under some spiritualistic hallucination."* The old painter's preoccupation with Rembrandt was deeper than the Post knew. A few years before his death from pneumonia in 1868, William Sidney Mount sat down and wrote himself a letter...
Soon a small male figure in a fur-collared overcoat knocked, entered, pulled off his gloves, delicately measured Madame for alterations. Heaven be praised, it was all over. In a week Madame would have her gown. She might also have pneumonia, but she would not be shabby...
During the last days of the King Tut story he came down with pneumonia. He never fully recovered. Though the Times listed him as managing editor for another seven years, he actually retired in 1925. He spent the succeeding years studying mathematics and astronomy, now & then catching Sir James Jeans or the British Museum in error. Last week, in his Park Avenue apartment, he got a piece of news by telephone: his only daughter had died. Two hours later, Carr Van Anda, 80, one of journalism's greats, died of a heart attack...