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Died. Anton Frederik Philips, 77, co-builder with his brother Gerard of Europe's vast Philips electrical products corporation, one of the world's biggest, which makes everything from light bulbs to cinema equipment, employs 80,000 workers in plants in 45 countries; of a heart ailment; in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, which the Philips brothers transformed from a village to an industrial city...
Died. W. K. Kellogg, 91, cereal tycoon (Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies); of a circulatory ailment; in Battle Creek, Mich. His $50 million fortune-and that of the whole breakfast-food industry-grew out of the Health Reform Institute, a water cure operated in Battle Creek by the Seventh Day Adventists. When they abandoned it in 1876, Kellogg's doctor-brother, John, turned it into the Battle Creek Sanitarium, invented flaked cereals to feed his patients. One of them, C. W. Post, took up the idea, made a success marketing Post Toasties and Grape Nuts. Thus encouraged, Kellogg...
King George's health has never been rugged. Two years ago he underwent a serious leg operation for a circulatory ailment. His consistent refusal to take things easy has taken its toll. There was danger of surgical shock to a constitution weakened by more than four months of respiratory trouble...
Died. Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou (Leland) Diamond, 61, No. 1 mortar man of the Marine Corps and long its greatest living legend; of a lung ailment; in Great Lakes Naval Hospital, ILL. A roaring, weatherbeaten old China hand, he spent his off hours downing beer by the case, persistently refused a commission ("No one can make a gentleman out of me!"), created new legends wherever he served. On Tulagi, in World War II, they told how he smashed 14 Japanese buildings in a row with his 81-mm. mortar, then popped a shell down the chimney of the 15th. Reverent...
Died. James Watson Gerard, 84, topflight corporation lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to Germany during World War I (1913-17); of a bronchial ailment; in Southampton, N.Y. A conservative Democrat, he came, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, from a wealthy old New York family, pleased his countrymen by his brass-knuckled attitude toward Germany's haughty World War I diplomats. When one of them warned that 500,000 Germans in America would rise up if the U.S. entered the war, Gerard coldly replied that the U.S. had 500,000 lampposts from which to hang them. When the U.S. entered...