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After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 Comrade Koba's name was great in Russia, where Lenin called him "Stalin" (meaning "Steel") but he still had a wife. Did she die of pneumonia? Did Stalin divorce her as the story goes, "by mail"? At any rate potent Comrade Stalin, aged 40 came back to Tiflis in 1919, dazzled the 17-year-old daughter of his locksmith friend and carried her back to Moscow. Presumably he married her. Why not?" A story has it that for the first few years of their life together Stalin, the suspicious Asiatic husband, used to lock...
Died. Charles Jacob ("The Sec") Holman, 70, longtime secretary, later chairman of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. No kin to Torch Singer Libby Holman, he was the stepfather of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw...
...Lover Miles became great friends, that complicated things; inevitably increasing quarrels complicated them more. But Evelyn had enough grace under pressure to break away. With Dan growing up and Miles growing fond of a girl his own age, nothing was left for Evelyn. She was glad when she caught pneumonia, willing to die especially when Miles was with...
Died. Lura Mansfield Olmsted Reed. 76. wife of Missouri's onetime (1911- 29 ) U. S. Senator James A. Reed; of pneumonia; in Kansas City...
Died. Thomas Joseph Shanley, 73, famed oldtime Broadway restaurateur; of pneumonia: at Lawrence...