(Encyclopedia) Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr., 1875–1966, American businessman and philanthropist, b. New Haven, Conn., grad. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1895. He began his career as a…
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Dr. Kurt Alfred AdlerAge: 92 psychotherapist who sought to put into practice new approach developed by his father, famed Viennese psychiatrist, Alfred Adler. Died: May 28, 1997.Bobby…
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Alfred KantorAge: 79 artist whose works chronicled the unimaginable horrors of concentration camps at Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Schwarzheide. He destroyed most of the works he created in…
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