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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Howard Carter, 66, famed British Egyptologist, leader of the expedition which discovered the 3,000-year-old tomb of King TutankhAmen; of pneumonia; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Died. Charles Richard Crane, 80, world traveler, onetime president of Chicago's potent Crane Co. (plumbing), onetime (1920-21) U. S. Minister to China; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. At the age of 20, Charles Crane decided to travel "seriously," spent three months following on foot the arduous trails in a book called Archbishop Grey's Walks in Canton. He made it his business and pleasure to have a finger in every interesting pie, became fast friends with Chiang Kaishek, Thomas Masaryk, Ibn Saud. At a critical moment in Czecho-Slovakia's history he supplied Masaryk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...When I was in Boston in 1925, I caught pneumonia, and while I was resting, under doctor's orders, Johnny Green, now a popular song writer and then a student at Harvard, used to come with some of his friends and play for me. I wanted to learn how to play the saxophone, but I never got further than the first three notes of 'God Save the King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Star of "Susan and God" Remembers Past Relations with Harvard Student | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Died. Edward Prentiss Costigan, 64, liberal Democrat, onetime (1930-36) U. S. Senator from Colorado; of a heart attack induced by lobar pneumonia; in Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Died. Zona Gale Breese, 64, novelist, essayist, playwright (Birth, Preface to a Life, Yellow Gentians and Blue); of pneumonia; in Chicago. In 1921 she won a Pulitzer prize for her dramatization of her own novel, Miss Lulu Bett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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