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Died. Alexander Kahn, 80, Russian-born general manager of New York's Jewish Daily Forward, the U.S.'s largest (circ. 70,000) foreign language (Yiddish) newspaper, a tireless fighter for the downtrodden, whose fund-raising efforts among New York's wealthy Jewish families won him the title of "the East Side's ambassador to the Uptown Jews"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Anderson Gallery concentrates on graphic works. Different as they are, the exhibitions eloquently recall Gorky's tortured perfectionism. At the Anderson Gallery there are six studies for one oil painting, each showing some refinement that Gorky made of its predecessor. The Janis exhibition, though incomplete, shows what a tireless experimenter...
Nowhere are the issues more fervently debated than in the constituency of North Bombay, where a splenetic and tireless politician is campaigning hard to retain his parliamentary seat. His name is plastered on thousands of opposition posters slapped on tree trunks, buildings and boulders all over North Bombay. The posters show two red bayonets stabbing down from Red China into India; the words are less a slogan than an accusation: "Menon represents China, not India...
Died. James Spencer Love, 65, wiry, tireless chairman of Burlington Industries, which he personally spun from a shoestring into the world's biggest textile maker (1961 sales: $866 million); of a heart attack while playing tennis; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Son of a Harvard math professor, Love returned from World War I at 23 with a major's oak leaves and $3,000 in savings, persuaded industry-hungry North Carolinians to bankroll his first textile mill; he pioneered in synthetics and over the years borrowed heavily to buy dozens of companies, often at bargain-basement prices...
...article in the Jan. 13 issue of the New York World Telegram, Segal, who runs 12 miles a day to keep in shape, was described as a "tireless 24-year-old budding young playwright, who would rather win the Boston Marathon than write the next 'My Fair Lady.' Well almost...