Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government prepared a speedy trial for Assassin Pallante, jailed in Regina Coeli (Queen of Heaven) prison. In the Policlinico, 55-year-old Togliatti contracted pneumonia, but after massive doses of penicillin (from the U.S.) he felt well enough to ask for a newspaper. He wanted to know how Italy's star rider was doing in France's cross-country bicycle race, the Tour de France...
...Georges de la Tour, by then painter-in-ordinary to the king, died of pneumonia. His fame slipped away, his name was lost. His scattered paintings, only a few of them signed, and all of them showing the influence of the great Caravaggio, were attributed to Caravaggio's followers and other artists: the brothers Le Nain, Vermeer, the obscure 17th Century Antoine de Latour and the 18th Century Maurice Quentin de la Tour...
Died. Theodor Morell, 62, Hitler's personal physician; of double pneumonia; at Tegern See, Bavaria. A high-pressure quack who had been a VD expert for Berlin's whores, he made a fortune out of his relationship with the Führer, pumped vast amounts of narcotics, stimulants, aphrodisiacs and plain colored water into his boss, undermined his resistance, helped speed the physical breakdown which nearly crippled Hitler during the last days of the Third Reich...
...Some of the smaller plants have shut down. And the big ones have slowed to a production pace worse than a shutdown. This, because of a new kind of common cold which leaves its victims weak and shaky for a month-when it doesn't flash into fatal pneumonia...
...Pneumonia brought the College's leading horseplayer to Stillman Infirmary yesterday, but the Suffolk mutuel machines saw no bet lack...