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Died. Ford F. Harvey, 62, President of Fred Harvey, Inc. (operators of the Santa Fe dining cars, many a hotel and lunchroom in the Southwest); of pneumonia following an attack of influenza; in Kansas City, Mo. He, a son of founder Fred Harvey, is survived by a son Fred, polo player and director in Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (TIME...
Most people thought until quite recently that pneumonia was a disease in which one grew rapidly worse until THE CRISIS, whereupon one either died or definitely recovered, unless there was a RELAPSE. These old-fashioned ideas have been strikingly challenged by the King of England's steady resistance to pneumonia over a period exceeding three weeks. Science has now so advanced the medical profession that it has been possible to increase and fortify the white germ-destroying corpuscles in the blood royal. The skilled specialist is prepared today to wage a long-drawn war of attrition with the enemy...
...Cumming made a special point of telling Congress about the fundamental research the Public Health Service is making in various diseases-cancer, tuberculosis, goiter, leprosy, trachoma, undulant fever, typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pneumonia, venereal diseases...
Died. James A. Patten, 76, wheat king; of pneumonia; in Evanston...
Died. William Bradford Merrill, 67, since 1917 general manager of the Hearst newspapers; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...