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Died. Louis Lumière, 83, wealthy motion-picture and color-photography pioneer, whom (with his brother Auguste) Europeans generally credit with inventing the cinema; of a heart ailment; in Bandol, France...
...little chance to relax. Next to the President of the U.S., he has the most difficult and trying political job in the land. Three months ago he almost collapsed with nervous exhaustion, the occupational ailment of the New York executive. He spent eight days in Bellevue Hospital, began taking a relaxing drink of Scotch before dinner, went off to California for a rest. But he came hurrying back after four weeks to ward off a strike which threatened to tie up the bus lines. "There's no use kidding," he says. "You can't take it easy...
Evangelist Billy Sunday's 79-year-old widow, "Ma," went to Jamestown, N.Y., for a Gospel Missions convention, was hospitalized with a heart ailment...
Died. Colonel James Layton Ralston, 66, Canada's bull-dogged wartime Minister of National Defense, whose demand that home-defense draftees ("zombies") be shipped overseas forced a Cabinet crisis and his resignation in 1944; of a heart ailment; in Montreal...
Died. Olga Samaroff Stokowski, 65, plump, hearty, onetime concert pianist, and Texas-born first wife of Conductor Leopold Stokowski; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Christened Lucy Hickenlooper,* she adopted the Russian name as more appropriate to an artistic career, for 50-odd years taught bankers and clubwomen how to listen to music, and budding pianists how to play...