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...bomb dropped from 15,000 ft. exploded prematurely, set off three other bombs inside the plane. With one side of the cabin blown out and flames eating their way through the cockpit, able Pilot Foote sideslipped coolly into a cotton field, saved himself and passengers. But next day pneumonia, brought on by burns, took James A. Boze...
...cordial; Victoria invited him to Windsor Castle. All Europe held concerts in his honor. On his way from Luxembourg to Bayreuth to hear Tristan a honeymooning couple entered his second-class compartment, leaned gaily out of the open window. Franz Liszt caught a chill. At Bayreuth it developed into pneumonia. His last word: "Tristan!" The Princess died a year later...
...Died? Henry Thomas Rainey, 73, Speaker of the House of Representatives; of angina pectoris following pneumonia; in St. Louis. A white-shocked farmer-lawyer from Carrollton, Ill., he was elected to Congress in 1902, served every ensuing term but one (1921-23). Elected Speaker by House Democrats in March 1933, he pushed through the early bills of the Roosevelt Administration, kept a blacklist of Representatives who voted anti-Administration...
...gives a party every time a descendant of his famed Man o' War wins a race); old John Sanford (whose son "Laddie" was playing polo on Long Island in the test games for the East-West matches). Notably absent was Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, who was recuperating from pneumonia on Long Island...
...Glen Cove, L. I., Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane lay ill of pneumonia, from a cold contracted while returning from Chicago where she saw her No. 1 horse Cavalcade win the Arlington Classic...