Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Bertram Cutler, 71, who went to work in 1902 as a bookkeeper for John D. Rockefeller Sr., eventually became the family's most trusted investment adviser, known to Wall Street as "the man who votes the Rockefeller stock"; of a heart ailment; in Green Village...
Died. Dr. Alfred Einstein,* 71, who as a child used to make "a lot of noise" on the violin, then turned from play to study and became one of the world's great musicologists, a ranking authority on Mozart and his works; of a heart ailment; in El Cerrito, Calif. In 1933, Einstein saw the handwriting on Hitler's wall, fled to Britain, in 1939 came to the U.S., where his success in his specialty led him finally to refer to Hitler ironically as "my greatest benefactor...
...have done well all season and are expected to make it a very close match, particularly because the Whites will be without the services of Muggy Mugaseth, who has mumps. Mugaseth played and won his match against Army last Friday, because a West Point doctor failed to diagnose his ailment properly...
Three years ago, on the eve of a state visit to Australia, the King fell seriously ill with a circulatory ailment. Last year the Commonwealth held its breath as doctors removed his cancerous left lung, and held thanksgiving services in December when he seemed to be out of danger...
Died. Sergei M. Trufanov, 71, once known as "Iliodor, the Mad Monk of Russia," demagogic foe of Rasputin, his onetime mentor and ally; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Trufanov lost his political struggle with Rasputin, fled unfrocked to New York, went back to Russia after the Revolution with a quixotic plan to set himself up as the "Russian Pope" and revamp the Orthodox Church to suit the Bolsheviks. Embittered and disillusioned, he came back to the U.S. for good in 1921, became a Baptist, got work as a janitor, passed his final decades in obscurity...