Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alfred Justin McCosker, 72, cofounder and onetime (1934-47) board chairman of the Mutual Broadcasting System, a director in radio's early days (of Newark station WOR) who introduced bedtime stories, setting-up exercises, Hollywood gossip-coaxed Charlie Chaplin to his first radio performance; of a heart attack; in Miami...
...saint of Lewisohn Stadium), an organizer of several of the mightiest U.S. mining and smelting companies, e.g., Anaconda Copper, American Smelting & Refining, in later years a big help to the late Robert R. Young in his successful fight to win control of the New York Central Railroad; of a heart attack; in Monte Carlo...
Died. A. Cecil Snyder, 51, Baltimore-born Chief Justice (1953-57) of Puerto Rico's Supreme Court, who helped draft Puerto Rico's commonwealth status, as district attorney convicted (1936) Nationalist Party Boss Albizu Campos of trying to overthrow the U.S. Government; of a heart attack; near San Juan...
...gently persuasive, Russian-born birth-control advocate, who offered premarital counseling to thousands, advised as many others whose marriages were in trouble, by invitation toured India and Russia to lecture on contraceptives, collaborated on books (A Marriage Manual, Planned Parenthood) that became staples of marital advice; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...modern-day badmen as scrap-metal grafters and lackadaisical meat distributors, kept dramatic, publicized feats to a minimum (by proving incriminating fingerprints faked, he cleared Client Alfred de Marigny of the celebrated Bahamas murder of Sir Harry Oakes), never once wore a gun, or used his fist; of a heart attack; in Tarrytown...