Exposures

General John Joseph Pershing caught a severe cold, last week, in Paris, while walking in a chill wind at the funeral of Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick (see p. 25).

Ignoring the advice of physicians and the pleading of friends, Mr. Herrick at the funeral of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (TIME, April 1) had taken off his silk hat, tramped more than two miles in the rain, caught a cold which broke down his long precarious health and killed him within five days.

Physicians who attended Marshal Foch said that he had contracted pneumonia walking in a chill London drizzle behind the body of Field Marshal Earl Haig (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928).

Not many months after the Haig funeral, King-Emperor George V caught the pneumonia of which he nearly died, while officiating hatless in the rain before Britain's Cenotaph, on last Armistice Day.

One statesmanlike exposure from which no ill came: Herbert Clark Hoover, hatless in a drizzle which penetrated to his underwear, taking oath of office in front of the U. S. Capitol.