Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Richard (Dick) Rudolph, 62, star righthanded pitcher of the 1914 Boston Braves; of a heart ailment; in The Bronx. Spearheaded by Spitballer Rudolph's 27 victories (twelve of them consecutive), the Braves zoomed from last place on July 4th to win the National League pennant, the World Series (in four games), and the historic title "Miracle Team...
Died. Mark Warnow, 47, topflight radio orchestra leader (MARCH OF TIME, We, the People), conductor (since 1937) of 493 broadcasts of Your Hit Parade; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Died. Fritz Leiber, 66, Chicago-born, longtime Shakespearean trouper, since 1935 a Hollywood character actor (A Tale of Two Cities, The Life of Louis Pasteur) ; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif. In a long career (beginning in 1905) of cross-country barnstorming as actor-producer, Leiber became one of Shakespeare's chief interpreters (everything from Romeo to Lear) for two generations of smalltown Americans...
Died. Robert Emmet Hannegan, 46, whose rise from St. Louis ward boss to a key spot in the Democratic Party helped put Harry Truman in the White House; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis. As a St. Louis party whip, Hannegan backed Senator Truman's renomination in the 1940 Missouri primary; as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1944-47). he led the fourth-term fight, persuaded F.D.R. to drop Henry Wallace as running mate and pressured the convention into picking Truman. Rewarded with the postmaster-generalship (1945), Hannegan i resigned his political jobs a year later...
Died. Bert Henry Miller, 69, Idaho's freshman Democratic Senator elected last November, onetime State Supreme Court Justice; of a heart ailment; in Washington...