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- DIED. Arthur Murray, 95, world-renowned ballroom-dancing
- teacher; in Honolulu. Students mastered such dances as the
- rumba, fox-trot, waltz and bunny-hug the Murray way -- with
- simple floor diagrams and the personal instruction of elegant
- teachers. Born Moses Teichman to Austrian immigrants who
- operated a bakery in East Harlem, New York, Murray sought to
- overcome shyness and an ungainliness by learning dancing from
- a girlfriend. In the 1920s, through a thriving mail-order
- business and studios, he capitalized on the dance craze sweeping
- the country. Among Arthur Murray students were Elizabeth
- Arden, Lowell Thomas and the Duke of Windsor. By his retirement
- in 1964, Murray had parlayed his nimble feet and business
- skills into an empire of 350 franchised studios that grossed
- $25 million a year.
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