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...intellectual and motivating force in her own right. But Klein could at least have acknowledged that she has had the courage to move forward in public life after a harrowing media storm that would have pushed most people into hiding for the rest of their life. SARA B. PRUSS Marina del Rey, Calif...
Died. Max Pruss, 69, captain of the airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg, who never fully recovered from burns suffered as he leaped from the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg when it exploded in Lakehurst, N.J. in 1937 (killing 36 people), but who steadfastly argued to the end that helium-filled dirigibles were the cheapest, safest and most comfortable form of air travel; of pneumonia; in Frankfort, West Germany...
Barring the possibility that the Hindenburg's commander, Captain Max Pruss, might reveal conflicting facts when he is recovered enough to testify, Dr. Eckener's explanation seemed likely to be accepted as final. He concluded that the disaster was caused: by lightning or static electricity from a small, following thunderstorm, igniting free gas high inside the rear of the envelope. Speaking in German translated by Vice President Frederick W. Meister of American Zeppelin Transport Co., and discarding sabotage in short order, Dr. Eckener reached his conclusion by the following reasoning: "Theoretically I believe there are only three possibilities...
...Capt. Max Pruss of the Hindenburg was declared out of danger, but other crew members remained in a serious condition, and one more passenger died at the Paul Kimball Hospital at Lakewood, N. ]., bringing the death total...
...German Consul in Manhattan begged his good friend, Dr. George Winthrop Fish, Park Avenue urologist, to get special help for Captains Pruss and Sammt who seemed to be dying at Lakewood. Dr. Fish immediately enlisted Dr. Allen Old-father Whipple, Columbia University's Persia-born professor of surgery. Professor Whipple immediately arranged for the transfer of Captains Pruss and Sammt to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre where every resource of modern medicine was promptly mobilized to save them...