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...Latvian-born immigrant who started in business with $5 and a sewing machine, built up one of the nation's largest sports equipment enterprises (Everlast Sporting Goods Co.), supplied free boxing gloves and punching bags to scores of boys clubs, summer camps and schools; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Died. Henry Howard, 83, chemical engineer, inventor (89 patents) and yachtsman; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. During World War I, he organized 7,000 drugstores as merchant marine enlistment centers, gained his greatest fame among amateur deep-sea sailors for his articles and books (Charting My Life) about his adventures aboard the yawl Alice...
Died. Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante, 86, Cuban lawyer, teacher, author, and onetime Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague; of a heart ailment; in Havana...
Died. Artur Schnabel, 69, composer-pianist, best known for his performances of Beethoven (his favorite), Schubert and Mozart; of a heart ailment; in Axenstein, Switzerland. A boy prodigy in Austria, Schnabel took lessons for seven years, but always hated to practice. In 1921, at his first U.S. concert, he defied his managers, dismayed the audience and pleased the critics by playing two solid hours of Beethoven. In later years, Schnabel (who became a U.S. citizen during World War II) took more pride in his atonal Schoenbergian compositions than in his playing. A pun-making perfectionist, Schnabel refused to play encores...
Died. Carlo Margotti, 60, Archbishop of Gorizia (near Trieste), who for 17 years took part in the touchy Yugoslav-Italian border disputes; of a heart ailment; in Gorizia, Italy. When Tito's Partisans entered Gorizia in 1945, Margotti was captured and sentenced to death as "an enemy of the Slovene people." Later, his sentence was commuted to banishment from Yugoslav territory...