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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Valentina Pavlovna Guercken Wasson, 57, Russian-born Manhattan pediatrician who, with her husband, stood in the absolute front rank of amateur experts on the mushroom; of cancer; in Manhattan. Dr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Wasson (a vice president of J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.) traveled around the world in pursuit of exotic mushrooms, published in 1957 the two-volume Mushrooms, Russia and History. Probably the most recondite work on mycology ever printed, it was limited to 512 copies, sold for $125, now brings...
...formed her own school and company in 1928 (opening what New York Times Critic John Martin soon called "a new chapter in American dancing"), creator of such modern dance masterpieces as The Shakers, With My Red Fires and (for Jose Limon) Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias; of cancer; in Manhattan. Her active career was stopped by crippling arthritis in 1945, but Doris Humphrey went on teaching, organized the Juilliard Dance Theater in 1954. After ten years of preparation, Doris Humphrey's Guggenheim-financed book, The Art of Making Dances, is on Rinehart's spring list...
Died. Edward S. Jordan, 76, early automaker (the sporty Jordan Playboy), president (1916-31) of the Jordan Motor Car Co., which collapsed under the Depression; in Manhattan...
MORGAN-GUARANTY TRUST merger is being checked by the Justice Department for possible antitrust violations, but trustbusters are not expected to oppose merger, since the Chase and Manhattan banks combined four years ago into a company whose assets are larger than the combined Morgan and Guaranty Trust assets...
FRENCH FRANC CREDITS up to $200 million will be backed by a U.S. bank syndicate headed by Chase Manhattan and First National City Bank of New York for two years to help stabilize the currency...