Word: uremia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refracted by a prism. The result is a much more orderly design than the eye could have seen in his drab, poorly furnished room on the Rue Ravignan, but it testifies to the vision that kept Gris painting there. In 1927, when he was only 40, Gris died of uremia. Long afterward, Picasso, studying one of Gris's paintings, said: "It's grand to see a painter who knew what he was doing...
...little Napoleon of an automaking empire. But France's only eulogy for him was a grimace and an ugly word: "collaborator." Last week, in the cooler atmosphere of eleven years later, Louis Renault's widow sought a court decision to establish that Renault had not died of uremia, but had been "deliberately murdered after torture." The widow's story made big headlines, but it did not really startle Frenchmen; they sensed that it was probably true...
Died. Dale Carnegie, 66, kingpin self-help author (How to Win Friends and Influence People, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living), founder of the Dale Carnegie Institute ("courses in Effective Speaking, Leadership Training and Human Relations"); of uremia; in New York City. As a $2-an-evening Y.M.C.A. public-speaking teacher in Manhattan, Carnegie discovered that what his students really wanted to learn was how to make a good impression on their bosses and friends. His institute boomed into a quasi religion whose 450,000 disciples were certain that he had pointed the way to success. In 1935, Publisher...
...Early this year, slowed down by three heart attacks, Publisher Carter made his last public speech at the opening of the 1955 Stock Show. Last week, at his home in the city that is a monument to his energy, showmanship and imagination, "Mr. Fort Worth," 75, died of uremia resulting from arteriosclerosis...
Died. Maurice Bedel, 69, French satiric novelist (Jerome: Sixty Degrees North Latitude, The New Arcadia], winner (in 1927) of the Goncourt Prize, chronicler in his prewar novels of the evils of Fascism and Naziism; of uremia; in Chatellerault, France...