Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Donald Bertrand Tresidder, 53, president of Stanford University since 1943; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Businessman Tresidder ran the university without sacrificing academic standards, largely through personal magnetism attracted nearly $8 million in endowments. Enormously popular with the students, "Uncle Don" managed to abolish sororities in 1944 without arousing any personal resentment...
Died. Orville Wright, 76, co-inventor of the airplane; of a heart ailment and lung congestion; in Dayton (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, 72, heavyweight Italian composer of lightweight opera (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne); of a heart ailment; in Venice. He enlivened dying operatic formulas, made a great success of putting many old styles to a few new uses...
Long since used to his odd ailment, Flynn grew up with the nickname "Tick Tock." He did not think there was anything particularly unusual about it until he read of another case. Flynn served in the Navy during the war, and Navy doctors suggested no cure...
Died. Hans van Meegeren, 58, master forger of old masters; of a heart ailment; in Amsterdam. Painter Van Meegeren set out to even scores with hostile art critics by showing them up as incompetents, produced such a persuasive "Vermeer" that critics acclaimed it as Vermeer's masterpiece. In 1945, charged with collaboration for having sold Hermann Göring a Vermeer, Dutchman Van Meegeren saved his neck by declaring himself a faker, proved it by painting another "Vermeer" in his prison cell...