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...Army doctors discovered the organism of pneumonia (George Miller Sternberg, almost simultaneously with Pasteur in 1881), of tooth decay (Puerto Rican Major Fernando Emilio Rodriguez, 1921), trench fever, three types of dysentery...
...Major General Robert Olds, seriously ill of pneumonia in Tucson, the Army last week gave the Distinguished Service Medal, its highest award this side of battle...
Died. Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff, 69, world-famed pianist and one of the half-dozen greatest composers of his generation; of pneumonia, pleurisy and complications; at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. A musician of aristocratic, old-world habits and conservative tastes, he wrote three operas, three symphonies, four piano concertos, countless oft-performed songs and piano pieces, was probably best known for his ubiquitous Prelude in C Sharp Minor (the "Flatbush" Prelude). Son of a captain in the Russian Imperial Guards, gaunt, towering Sergei Rachmaninoff was a close friend and protégé of the late great Peter Ilich...
Winston Churchill, entering the House for the first time since his recent recovery from pneumonia, early rose from the Ministers' front bench, squarely faced the opposition, lowered his taurian head and snorted: "This question should normally have been addressed to the Secretary of State for War, but since the Honorable Member, no doubt from those motives of delicacy which are characteristic of him, has preferred to put it to me I will answer it myself. ... I am advised that it [the letter] does not fall into the restrictions ... of the King's Regulations as it deals with political...
Died. James J. ("Jimmy") Collins, 73, baseball's onetime and perhaps alltime greatest third baseman; of pneumonia; in Buffalo. Famed for his fast defense against bunts, he once had the pleasure of tossing out Bunt-Attempters Wee Willie Keeler, John McGraw and Hughie Jennings in succession. He managed the Boston Red Sox to victory in 1903-8 first World Series, quit professional baseball in 1911, invested in real estate, went broke in the depression, managed the Buffalo Parks Department teams...