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Died. William E. Swift, 35, son of Louis Franklin Swift, Chicago meat- packer; by his own hand with a revolver in Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles's Park Avenue sanitarium for rich neurasthenics, dope-fiends and alcoholics (TIME, June 9), on the same floor where Actress Jeanne Eagels died in convulsions (TIME, Oct. 14). He had been under Dr. Cowles's care for eight months. Some hours before the suicide Swift's nurse saw the revolver strapped to his arm, told Dr. Cowles. Dr. Cowles instructed the weapon be removed when Swift fell asleep. Dr. Charles Norris...
Died. J. Robert ("Bob") Moran, 45, longtime night city editor of the Atlanta Constitution; at a sanitarium in Atlanta...
Died. James Morford Taylor, 86, professor emeritus and head of the mathematics department of Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.), teacher of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick; at a sanitarium in Greenwich, Conn...
Died. Dr. Leopold Auer, 85, famed violinist, teacher, transcriber of violin music; of pneumonia, at a sanitarium in Dresden, Saxony. Born at Veszprim, Hungary, he studied at Budapest, Vienna. Hanover. He married a Russian, Nadine Pelikan, was named professor at the Imperial Conservatory in Petrograd. His pupils persuaded him to go to New York in 1918, where he divorced his first wife, married a Mme Bogutska-Stein. His greatest pupils: Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Toscha Seidel, Efrem Zimbalist...
...recipient of the Rotary International Service Medal "in appreciation of a life of service to science, the arts, and humanity." While newsmen, photographers, waited after the ceremony he told a story: a man who suffered from a liver complaint went to Los Angeles for cure, recovered, started a sanitarium of his own. "Eighteen years afterward, the man died," declared Inventor Edison, "but before they could bury him his liver had got so strong they had to kill it with a club...