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Died. Harry Reser, 69, oldtime banjoist, whose fur-trimmed Clicquot Club Eskimos kept the NBC airways jingling to the tune of Ain't She Sweet? and Barney Google every week between 1925 and 1933, later strummed for Sammy Kaye; of a heart attack, while tuning up for his nightly performance in the orchestra of Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof; in Manhattan...
Died. Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, 71 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1953), rum-swigging onetime U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate, who landed in Haiti in 1927 during the long (1915-34) Marine occupation, stayed on when the troops went home, as director of the country's only insane asylum, took up the study of voodoo, became a houngan (priest) and internationally famed explicator of the jungle rites; of a heart attack; at his wattled hut near Port-au-Prince...
...congenial were Reser's relations with the country folk that when the Marines pulled out in 1934, he was the only member of the occupation force to be kept on in his post by the Haitian government...
Horseback Clinics. Reser is the last survivor of the U.S. Marines' 19-year (1915-34) occupation of Haiti. A Utah-born Mormon, who joined the Navy in his youth to see the world, he went to the island 25 years ago as a chief pharmacist's mate assigned to conduct horseback clinics for ailing peasants. Reser took to the people and their tropical ways at once. He studied the properties of native herbs, listened to the advice of voodoo doctors...
Veranda Consultations. Doc Reser lives frugally on his retired sailor's pension, and is known as a soft touch for almost any countryman who passes his door with a hard-luck story. He drops in at Sonny Griswold's American Bar in Port-au-Prince' occasionally for a rum-and-drum session with visiting U.S. bluejackets. He paints and sketches reads and talks with tourists and others who come to him for voodoo information.-Oldtimers have estimated that Doc has 10,000 Haitian friends. When asked if he ever thinks of going back to Utah, he says...