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Died. Edmund William Starling, 68, soft-mannered, hard-handed bodyguard and friend of five U.S. Presidents, from Wilson to Roosevelt (TIME, Oct. 4) ; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Mildred Harris, 41, onetime cinemactress, first of Charles Chaplin's four wives; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. She was 16 when she married Chaplin in 1918. two years later divorced him, charging that "he never did anything but think." She married twice again, tried many cinema comebacks, in 1937 played in burlesque...
WPBoss Donald Nelson, a weak and weary pneumonia convalescent, won a big battle by telephone last week. Nelson had issued the first WPB directive permitting the resumption of civilian production. A majority of his lieutenants, backed solidly by the Army & Navy, had pigeonholed the order, in his absence (TIME, July...
...simple method the researchers have made vaccines against the colon bacillus, Salmonella enteritidis, Staphylococcus aureus (boils, septicemia, etc.), one type of pneumonia, one streptococcus, St. Louis encephalitis (sleeping sickness) virus, rabies virus. Tests on other germs, and vaccine trials during human epidemics, are yet to come...
When WPBoss Donald Nelson gets back to his desk, perhaps this week, he faces a tougher fight than his successful bout with pneumonia. While he was abed his balky WPB co-workers had shelved what is probably the most important order Nelson had ever issued: an order that would begin the reconversion of U.S. war plants in an orderly...