Word: stoker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Bolitho (Ryall), 39, South African English-Dutchman, one-time fisticuffer, ship's stoker, reporter. Wartime British Army lieutenant (buried alive in a Somme dugout and consequently rendered unconscious for weeks, unhealthy for life), Paris correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, author (Murder for Profit, Leviathan, Twelve Against the Gods, Italy under Mussolini, Cancer of Empire), dramatist (Overture, 1920), recently a vivid, penetrating triweekly colyumist for the New York World: of peritonitis after an appendectomy; at Avignon, France...