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...first wife had died hating him. His second wife died loving him. After his third marriage, McClellan reached again for family happiness and stability. They were beyond him. In North Africa, during World War II, Corporal Max McClellan-Eula's son-came down with a back ailment. Doctors neglected him, his Army superiors accused him of goldbricking-until he. like Lucille McClellan, died of spinal meningitis. John and Max had never been close, which made the boy's death all the more painful. Says a close family friend: "Max was raised in a broken home, and John felt...
Disaster struck the following day. In bold headlines, the paper lamented, "Tom Burke Disabled. The Half-Mile Champion Lame in England. Setback to the Chances of Harvard and Yale." The article went on to explain the nature of Burke's ailment, an old stone bruise, and said," Burke is almost broken-hearted over the misfortune. Fortunately, Adams, the American second-string half-miler appears to be in superb condition...
...prognostications they failed, for the heavily-favored Burke, who had been ill with a stomach ailment since he landed, finished a dead last, and a Cantabridgian named Davison won the quarter-mile...
Died. Duke (born Russell T.) Shoop, 53, political reporter, war correspondent, longtime (since 1933) Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Star; of a liver ailment; in Washington...
Died. William Grove (Bill) Skelly, 78, founder and board chairman of Skelly Oil Co., a Republican power in Oklahoma, where he dished out federal patronage during the Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Known as "Mr. Tulsa," he donated more than $250,000 to Tulsa University; of a kidney ailment; in Tulsa...