Word: pneumoniae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first place, four key players are still dubious starters because of probation complications. Second, ace defense man Charlie Coulter is out of the lineup with pneumonia until after Christmas. There, the schedule is the toughest in history: all the league standbys are back, and an imposing roster has been added for a vacation roadtrip. "We ought to beat Northwestern and Brown," Chase says with a wan smile...
Died. Lieut. Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, U.S.N. (ret.), 52, pioneer Navy flyer (he set five speed and endurance records in the '20s), Broadway playwright (Ceiling Zero), movie scenarist (The Citadel); of pneumonia and complications; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wead decided to become a writer when his flying was ended by a crippling accident in 1926. But he wangled his way back to active duty in 1942, served aboard Pacific carriers with his neck in a steel brace...
...Nellie had wanted to settle there since 1897, when, recovering from pneumonia, she spent a summer at a rest camp high up on San Jacinto. The camp owner had pointed to the scrub-covered desert below and said: "There's the place to spend the winter." Her father, a hotelkeeper in Santa Monica, laughed at Nellie's notion that Palm Springs would boom if it had a good boarding house; you couldn't even get to it on the railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs...
...most eye-catching were three dresses which featured what one observer dubbed "the pneumonia neckline." One of them, a Jean Louis "suit" slashed down to the solar plexus, employed a large artificial rose in the open air bodice as the only ward against chills...
Died. Olive Borden, 40, briefly famed screen beauty of the '20s; of double pneumonia and complications; in a Los Angeles mission for destitute women, where she had been a haggard, hard-drinking off-&-on guest for three years...