Leonard Eugene Dickson

Leonard Eugene Dickson 1874-1954, American mathematician, b. Independence, Iowa, grad. Univ. of Texas, 1893. He studied in Leipzig and Paris and joined the staff of the Univ. of Chicago in 1900. A leading American algebraist, he wrote on invariants and the theory of finite and infinite groups. His chief work is A History of the Theory of Numbers (3 vol., 1919-23, repr. 1966).

Istomin, Eugene (George) (b NY, 1925; d 2003). Amer. pianist of Russ. parentage. Won Leventritt Award 1943. Début with Philadelphia Orch., 1943. Prades Fest. with Casals 1950. Founded pf. trio with Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose, 1961.

Kruger, Otto (1885–1974), actor. One of Broadway's most popular leading men in the 1920s, he was born in Toledo and educated at the University of Michigan and Columbia. He first appeared before the public in 1900 in Quo Vadis? More than a decade in stock and touring companies followed before he made his New York debut as Jack Bowling in The Natural Law (1915). Among his best‐remembered roles were the reformer Adam Smith in Adam and Eva (1919), the tubercular patient Stephen Murray in Eugene O'Neill's Straw (1921), the reformed crook Lee Randall in Alias Jimmy Valentine (1921), the conceited but incompetent salesman Leonard Beebe in To the Ladies (1922), the title role in Will Shakespeare (1923), the hypochondriac Henry Williams in The Nervous Wreck (1923), and the John Barrymore‐like actor Anthony Cavendish in The Royal Family (1927). After many years in films, Kruger returned to Broadway in the 1940s without ever finding a successful play.