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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...
...stream." Unlike his Scottish and Welsh patients, many of these newcomers were merely "idle, spoiled and neurotic," but young Dr. Cronin was too thrilled by success to care much about that "("I was, I assure you, a great rogue at this period"). For these new patients he invented an ailment named "asthenia" ("which means no more than weakness or general debility"), and soon his anti-asthenia injections were the toast of the town. "Again and yet again my sharp and shining needle sank into fashionable buttocks, bared upon the finest linen sheets. I became expert, indeed superlative...
...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...