Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Robert Houghwout Jackson, 62, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; of a heart ailment; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Allen Billingsley, 64, since 1928 president of Cleveland's Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. advertising agency (accounts: Westinghouse, "Alcoa," Sherwin-Williams), twice board chairman (1939 and 1944) of the American Association of Advertising Agencies; of a heart ailment; in Cleveland...
...Lady), who began at 20 as a Baptist minister, became a newspaperman (A. P., New York World-Telegram) until free-lance success in the late '30s allowed him to devote all his time to his facile tales of slave trading,dueling and boudoir derring-do; of a heart ailment; at Chapel Hill...
Died. Patrick Anthony McCarran, 78,Nevada's longtime (since 1933) Democratic Senator and state political boss; of a heart ailment; in Hawthorne, Nev. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Kokichi Mikimoto, 95, onetime noodle merchant who became the world's largest producer of cultured pearls; of a kidney ailment; in Nagoya, Japan. Perfecting by trial and error a method of seeding oysters known since the 13th century (a fleck of sand or a tiny bead is forced into the oyster, which seeks to counteract the irritant by coating it with layer upon layer of pearl-making nacre), spry, fun-loving Mikimoto (who entertained his employees with feats of magic and parasol-twirling) scandalized Paris in 1913, when he first brought his quarter-price pearls to the international...