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...Reason: although cancer and bacterial diseases may eventually be controlled, bones will eventually buckle and warp, arteries will eventually harden. > About half the old people in the U. S. die from diseases of the circulatory system (hardening of the arteries, heart trouble), 12.5% from diseases of the respiratory system (pneumonia, influenza), 12.5% from cancer, 8.5% from kidney disease, the rest from diseases of the digestive system, or accidents. Prime affliction of old age is hardening of the arteries, which throws healthy, durable hearts and kidneys out of kilter, often brings about insanity and may contribute to diabetes...
...breath, was wheeled into Chicago's Mercy Hospital. Five grave doctors hovered over his bed, took samples of his sputum to type the pneumococci that had attacked him, samples of his blood to type him for transfusions. They covered him with an oxygen tent, inoculated him with pneumonia serum, fed him the famed pneumonia specific, sulfapyridine. Mercy Hospital's Patient No. 1939-2468 was a very special case: he was the junior partner of America's most famous medical team-Dr. Charles Horace Mayo. As it does with the greatest efficiency for 80,000 patients a year...
...studios for which they cracked out an unrivaled list of successes. Towne & Baker like to work in hats and no shirts (see cut), Towne building up ideas and Baker tearing them down. Their mutual devotion is celebrated in a popular Hollywood story that when Baker was dying of pneumonia last year, Towne climbed into his oxygen tent and revived his partner by threatening to deprive him of screen credit on a forthcoming film...
Died. Harold Irving Pratt, 62, financier whose father organized the original Standard Oil Co. with the original John D. Rockefeller; of pneumonia; in Glen Cove...
...Hated, terrorized, necessary, they are migrant workers who harvest the orchards and vineyards, the cotton and vegetable fields of the richest valleys on earth. Their homes are filthy squatters' camps on the side roads, beside the rivers and irrigation ditches. Their occupational diseases are rickets, pellagra, dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia, starvation, sullen hatred exploding periodically in bloody strikes. Old American stock, they are mostly refugee sharecroppers from the Dust Bowl of the Southwest and Midwest. They are called the "Oakies." There are 250,000 of them-a leading U. S. social problem, and participants in one of the grimmest migrations...