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...tournaments with purses totaling $1,600,000, twice the prize money of only four years ago and nearly ten times that of 1939. Last year's leading money winner, with $53,167.60, was spare, teetotaling Art Wall Jr., 36, who is just now recovering from a kidney ailment that sidelined him in February. Seven other pros earned more than $30,000 on the tour, doubled that amount with endorsements, exhibitions, salaries from their home clubs...
Died. Sidney S. Lenz, 86, who started work at 16 as a $2-a-week paper salesman, retired at 31 as the millionaire owner of a paper company, devoted much of his life thereafter to playing and experting at bridge; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In 1931, after he and Partner Oswald Jacoby were challenged ($10,000 to $1,000) by Upstart Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson and Wife Josephine to a 150-rubber match billed as "The Bridge Battle of the Century," Lenz fell into eclipse when the Culbertsons, promoting their new honor-trick system, talked and slammed their...
...year later, he was dead of a heart ailment. Dr. Fishbein had already written his obituary: "Centuries to come may never produce again such blatancy, such fertility of imagination or such...
...life of idealistic struggle, for I have still not lost a particle of hope regarding the future of Turkey." At week's end, his health failing but his will still unbowed, old Ahmed Emin Yalman was moved from prison to an Istanbul hospital with a heart ailment...
From Morphine to Coke. Starting in 1945, King hit the lower depths of a decade of drug addiction. A doctor prescribed morphine for his kidney ailment, and Alex was soon hooked. He is bitter about U.S. treatment of addicts, which he believes to be medievally retarded, and attributes his cure to that hallowed remedy, the love of a good woman-his fourth and current wife, Margie Lou Swett, 26, a svelte and self-possessed singer who sometimes doubles on snare drums on his television show...