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After several weeks thankfully free of new anthrax developments, another case has emerged. An elderly Connecticut woman died Wednesday from a case of inhalation anthrax. Ottilie Lundgren, who is 94 years old, was admitted to Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut last Wednesday with pneumonia. She spent the week in critical condition. The FBI and state police are now conducting a criminal investigation...
DIED. HERBERT BLOCK, 91, ferociously nonconformist Washington Post cartoonist known as Herblock who illuminated issues from McCarthyism to campaign fund raising and skewered 13 Presidents; of pneumonia; in Washington. Block won three Pulitzer Prizes and shared a fourth. His images, which included one of Jimmy Carter trying unhappily to get a clear picture of himself on TV, could be withering. Block proudly recalled a Post publisher saying his work prompted Nixon to cancel his subscription four times. In 1994 Block received the Medal of Freedom. His last cartoon, at left...
...University. That strong Southern accent delivered with her unique inflections drew her audience to a special place. The grande dame of American literature died Monday in a Jackson, Miss., hospital near the family home where she had lived for almost all of her 92 years. She was hospitalized with pneumonia on Saturday...
...cold--that was last winter. It turns into a nasty dose of flu that, with a few pills and lots of honey and lemon, you think you'll get over soon. That was the spring. But now your aches and pains are beginning to feel like something worse; pneumonia, maybe? That's where we are this summer...
DIED. RICHARD SCAMMON, 85, presidential pollster, elections expert and former head of the U.S. Census Bureau; of pneumonia; in Gaithersburg, Md. In 1964, Scammon chaired a presidential commission on voter registration that found election laws "unreasonable, unfair and outmoded...