Word: cassel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lloyd C. (for Cassel) Douglas. 73, novelist; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. At 52, Lutheran Minister Douglas began a fifth collection of essays which somehow wound up as a novel. Magnificent Obsession, a fictionalized tribute to good works, sold nearly 700,000 copies its first year. After a second bestseller (Forgive Us Our Trespasses), Douglas left the pulpit, concentrated on his "nationwide parish of novel readers," who deluged him with letters of thanks for the comfort they found in his eleven novels, including The Robe, The Big Fisherman. He was always frankly "more concerned with healing bruised...