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...biggest farm coops, in 1926 founded a mutual auto-insurance firm that became Nationwide Insurance Companies (3,000,000 policyholders, $760 million assets), then after World War II took the idea of little people helping little people to CARE, ot which he was the first president; of pneumonia; in Columbus...
Baker, who had been confined to his bed following a hip injury several months ago, died of pneumonia Saturday...
...surviving son, who was born after his dread dad's surrender to the U.S. Army (ending decades of terrorizing the Southwest), lived with his mother, Kate Cross-Eyes, on the Mescalero, N. Mex., Indian reservation, where he was a farmer and an occasional adviser on Apache movies; of pneumonia; in Mescalero...
...ballyhoo guys to bring people into the author's tent," and did so in both books and such magazines as Redbook and The Saturday Evening Post, where his fine-lined, highly realistic drawings embellished the stories of O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...grandmother lived 101 years and his mother reached 103. Sebastian Spering Kresge, grounding his hope on heredity and a lifelong abstinence from whisky and tobacco, confidently expected to equal them, and he nearly did. But last week, nine months short of his hundredth birthday, Kresge died of pneumonia and complications that doctors gently described as "old age." For the founder of the S.S. Kresge Co.'s far-reaching chain of variety stores, not attaining the century mark was one of the few failures in a long and productive life...