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...Marrakech in French Morocco last week, General de Gaulle had an apparently cordial talk with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, just recovered from pneumonia...
Died. Ida Minerva Tarbell, 86, crusading journalist, onetime "Terror of the Trusts" (The History of the Standard Oil Company); of pneumonia; in Bridge port, Conn. Daughter of a Pennsylvania oilman driven to the wall by the Rocke fellers, onetime seminary teacher Ida Tarbell gained fame for herself and thousands of new readers for McClure's with her 1896 serialized Life of Lincoln. In 1902-04 she helped bust the oil trust with a series of 19 McClure's articles; they brought in a gusher of public resentment that flowed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which...
...most important patient in the world was getting well last week, somewhere in the Middle East. A sulfa drug (probably sulfapyridine) had again saved Prime Minister Winston Churchill from pneumonia (first time: last February). Before leaving for a good rest at an "unknown destination" (Axis radio reported him in Aswan), Mr. Churchill issued what the New York Times called "one of the most poignant and personal communiques ever issued from No. 10 Downing Street." It was the best advertising sulfa drugs ever...
...feel so ill in this attack as I did last February. The M & B ... did the work most effectively. There is no doubt that pneumonia is a very different illness from what it was before this marvellous drug was discovered...
Those parts of the U.S. that got flu first had less flu last week. But on the newly flu-struck West Coast, and in parts of New England, the flu graph went up steeply, while Public Health Service figures showed that throughout the U.S. deaths from combined influenza and pneumonia were rising. In New York City, deaths from pneumonia rose from 160 to 235 in one week. The week's most glamorous flu sufferers: Hedy LaMarr, Marlene Dietrich...