Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Maxwell Evarts Perkins, 62, editor of Publishers Charles Scribner's Sons, discoverer and literary nurse of such notables as Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Erskine Caldwell, Ring Lardner, John P. Marquand; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. In You Can't Go Home Again, the late Thomas Wolfe lovingly caricatured Good Friend Perkins as "Foxhall Edwards"; drew a Miltonic epitaph: "Oh guileful Fox, how innocent in guilefulness and in innocence how full of guile! How straight in cunning, and how cunning-straight, in all directions how strange-devious, in all strange-deviousness how direct! Too straight for crookedness...
Died. J. Warren Kerrigan, 67, whose small fortune made (and shrewdly saved) as an early (1911 to 1923) cinematinee idol allowed him to spend his last years pleasantly puttering around his garden; of pneumonia; in Balboa, Calif...
Died. Harry Gordon Selfridge, 90, Wisconsin-born merchant prince who built London's largest department store; of pneumonia; in London. Retiring at 46 after piling up a fortune with Chicago's Marshall Field & Co., Selfridge took a trip to London, was shocked by staid British selling methods, opened the store on Oxford Street that grew rich and famous through high-pressure advertising...
Died. Evalyn Walsh McLean, 60, Washington's most famed and lavish hostess, owner of the reputedly unlucky 44¼-carat Hope Diamond (estimated value: anything up to $2 million) ; of pneumonia; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Doctors give part of the credit to penicillin and other new drugs; e.g., deaths from pneumonia, 1930's big killer of youngsters under four, have been cut to onefourth. But medicine has made progress all along the line. Thanks to public-health campaigns and education of parents in diet and child care, there have been far fewer deaths from contagious diseases, tuberculosis, appendicitis, diarrhea, intestinal disease, rheumatic fever...