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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Killed. Earl Carroll, 55, gaunt, gaudy Broadway writer-producer (So Long Letty, White Cargo, Vanities), latter-day Hollywood nightclub owner; in an airplane crash; near Mt. Carmel, Pa. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Carroll got his start as a lyricist for the late Enrico Caruso, went on to produce 15 editions of his Vanities, two Sketch Books. He declared bankruptcy in 1936, two years later opened his colossal nightclub...
Died. Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones, 85, Quaker patriarch co-founder and chairman of the American Friends Service Committee from 1917 to 1928; in Haverford, Pa. Longtime philosophy professor at Haverford College (1904-34), he directed the spending of $25 million for relief after World War I; later, as chairman of European relief, helped care for war orphans in Spain and Jews in Germany...
Critic. In Berwick, Pa., an exasperated six-year-old boy explained to police why he had tried to burn down the Berwick Christian Church: the services were too long...