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John Barrymore was stricken again, and gravely. Suffering from "an abdominal condition resulting from liver and kidney ailments," he was rushed to a Hollywood hospital, next day developed pneumonia, lapsed into semiconsciousness, four days later was still unconscious most of the time. Elder Brother Lionel, as before, subbed...
Died. Morris Gest, 61, veteran impresario, spectacular theatrical producer; of a heart attack following pneumonia; in Manhattan. Born Moses Gershonovich in Russia, he was shipped to the U.S. by his parents when he was nine, was managing actors at 17. In his early years as a co-producer with F. Ray Comstock he presented some 50 shows, among them the fleshly Aphrodite, the gaudy Chu-Chin-Chow and Mecca. Wild-eyed, wild-dream-ing, moody, self-dramatizing (he affected long hair, curvaceous hats, a Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most...
Died. Abraham Epstein, 50, longtime fighter for social security; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Credited with being the strongest single influence in the U.S. on the trend of public opinion toward the adoption of social security legislation, he had been writing, organizing, talking, lobbying for his ideas for almost 20 years, before the Federal Social Security Act was passed...
Last week, aged 59, he wrote his last column. There was no sense of imminence in it, for there was no sense of imminence in the General that day. He was ill in bed with pneumonia, but he had been ill for several months. His column was on taxes and prices. It began: "There appears to be no end to the lack of frankness and coordination among high government officials. ..." A few hours later, Death, as it must to all men, came to Old Ironpants. A caisson carried General Johnson to Arlington cemetery, where he was buried with full military...
Died. Brigadier General Hugh Samuel ("Old Ironpants") Johnson, 59; of pneumonia; in Washington...