Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tournaments with purses totaling $1,600,000, twice the prize money of only four years ago and nearly ten times that of 1939. Last year's leading money winner, with $53,167.60, was spare, teetotaling Art Wall Jr., 36, who is just now recovering from a kidney ailment that sidelined him in February. Seven other pros earned more than $30,000 on the tour, doubled that amount with endorsements, exhibitions, salaries from their home clubs...
...idea man who thought up the pay-as-you-go tax plan, got it accepted by a reluctant Congress in 1943 with the support of much of the press and, according to a Gallup poll, 83% of the nation's rich, 86% of its poor; of a heart ailment; in Danbury, Conn, on the day U.S. taxes became due. After a lively term as dean of social sciences at the University of Chicago from 1931 to 1933. Ruml became treasurer of Macy's, overhauled its accounting system. Some of his ideas found their way into the New Deal...
Died. Sidney S. Lenz, 86, who started work at 16 as a $2-a-week paper salesman, retired at 31 as the millionaire owner of a paper company, devoted much of his life thereafter to playing and experting at bridge; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In 1931, after he and Partner Oswald Jacoby were challenged ($10,000 to $1,000) by Upstart Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson and Wife Josephine to a 150-rubber match billed as "The Bridge Battle of the Century," Lenz fell into eclipse when the Culbertsons, promoting their new honor-trick system, talked and slammed their...
...year later, he was dead of a heart ailment. Dr. Fishbein had already written his obituary: "Centuries to come may never produce again such blatancy, such fertility of imagination or such...
...life of idealistic struggle, for I have still not lost a particle of hope regarding the future of Turkey." At week's end, his health failing but his will still unbowed, old Ahmed Emin Yalman was moved from prison to an Istanbul hospital with a heart ailment...