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As it must to all men, Death came last week to the softspoken, knife-witted, twinkle-eyed author of this definition, himself a master-economist. John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, 62, died of heart disease on Easter Day at his manor of Tilton, Sussex. He had just returned...
Under his well-cultivated Eton and Cambridge charm, Keynes had the roving, many-sided spirit of an Elizabethan. His interests ranged from banking to the Bloomsbury artistic set, his hobbies from bibliography to the ballet. But the world would remember him as an economist with ideas as seminal as Adam...
With the death of Baron Keynes of Tilton, the world mourns the loss of a poet-philosopher statesman. A position, an influence, an intellectual depth and vigor unrivalled in the modern world were his; his, too, was an ability to commit his thought, often abstruse, into solutions for the concrete...
The work of John Maynard Keynes had an importance transcending economic exploration or probility theory. A liberal of humanitarian principles, he foretold his future when he resigned his position as Treasure representative at the Versailles Conference that he might oppose the ridiculous economic burdens being placed upon a prostrate Germany...
Lord Keynes, British money expert, arriving in the U.S. for a meeting of Bretton Woods wizards, was asked by newsmen to comment on a Londoner's remark that the U.S. loan would make England "an illegitimate 49th state of the Union." Smiled Keynes: "No such luck."