Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller, 73, publicity-hating, art-loving (she was a co-founder of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art), wife of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Daughter of Rhode Island's Nelson Aldrich, one of the richest men to serve in the U.S. Senate, she married John D.'s only son in 1901, devoted her private life to philanthropy and the strict upbringing of their six children...
Died. Maurice C. Latta, 78, White House Executive Clerk and its oldest employee (for every Administration since McKinley's); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. A dour, studiously anonymous "indispensable," "Judge" Latta bossed the more than 200 White House Administration employees. As official messenger, he was privileged to interrupt the U.S. legislature-with the words "I am directed by the President of the United States to deliver a message in writing...
Died. Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren, 55, Stars & Stripes cartoonist of World War I, whose tireless gouging at MPs, topkicks, cooties and second looies made him the comic favorite of the A.E.F.'s doughboys; of a liver ailment; in Upper Darby...
Died. Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, U.S.N. (ret.), 75, early advocate of naval air power, first Commander in Chief of the U.S. fleet (1934-36) to wear wings (observer) and last to sport a beard (Vandyke); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. Reeves, a stanchion-stiff disciplinarian, earned his first commendation in the engine room of the Oregon on her round-the-Horn dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend...
Died. Leo F. Forbstein, 55, dean of motion picture musical directors, music supervisor of Warner Bros, for two decades; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood, Calif...