Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Louis Ezekiel Stoddard, 70, socialite polo star of three decades ago; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. He played on two international challenge teams (1913, 1921), became a ten-goal...
Died. Gordon S. Rentschler, 62, chairman of the board of directors of the National City Bank of New York; of a heart ailment; in Havana. He was once described by the late Fiorello LaGuardia as "the one banker I know who has none of the traits of the pawnbroker...
Died. Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 73, dean of U.S. psychiatrists, first (1909) to translate Sigmund Freud into English; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Austrian-born Dr. Brill, until his fatal illness, remained a practicing psychoanalyst, a teacher at Columbia and N.Y.U., the leading U.S. Freudian...
Died. John Robert Gregg, 80, inventor of Gregg shorthand; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He developed his own shorthand as a note-taking schoolboy in Ireland, published his first manual at 20, came to the U.S. to teach five years later, lived to see his system taught in an estimated 95% of U.S. commercial and public schools...
Occupational Ailment. In Saxonburg, Pa., Susan Stewart, 100, was chosen "oldest [doughnut] dunker in America" by the National Dunking Association, but had to turn down a trip to New York because of chronic indigestion...