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Died. Leonard P. Ayres, 67, economic analyst and topnotch statistician, one of the few to call the turn on the 1929 crash, whose monthly bulletins and annual forecasts gave him great prestige among big and little businessmen, and whose statistical job for the U.S. Army and War Department in two wars brought him the rank of brigadier general; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
...Superhuman Forbearance." Secretary Byrnes was in Paris. Since the opening of the Peace Conference, an amateur statistician of the Quai d'Orsay had estimated Byrnes had uttered some 90,000 words in public. But since Wallace had attacked his policy he had not spoken one. Now he still said nothing...
Himself a little man, born at Scylla, not far from mythical Charybdis, in the Straits of Messina, he had long tossed between the rock of poverty and the whirlpool of Fascist repression. Until the blackshirts fell, he had eked out an existence as a statistician. Then, on Columbus Day, 1944, he had rediscovered America for his countrymen...
Died. Carl Snyder, 76, economist and statistician whose free-enterprising economics helped shape Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign policy, but whose statistics went awry (by the "calculus of probability" he predicted a Willkie victory) ; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Speechwriter and Adviser Judge Samuel Irving Rosenman, Statistician Isador Lubin, Contract Terminations Director Robert Hinckley, and Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel W. ("Old Dan") Tracy...