Word: annalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ruth Houghton Axe, 67, economist and financier, the only woman to head a mutual fund, who met her writer-economist husband, Emerson Wirt Axe, while she was assistant editor of the Annalist, a financial weekly, in 1932 formed with him E. W. Axe & Co., investment counselors, helped run the firm until his death in 1964, then took the reins herself, directing with boundless energy its four mutual funds and private-investment accounts worth $500 million from a turreted 45-room Westchester County castle; of a heart attack; in Tarrytown...