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- DIED. William Larimer Mellon Jr., 79, a scion of the
- blue-chip Mellon family who, at 37, left his Arizona cattle
- ranch to become a doctor and minister to Haiti's poor; in
- Deschapelles, Haiti. Using $1.5 million of his inheritance, he
- built a hospital in central Haiti, where he inoculated 15,000
- people a month and decreased the local tuberculosis mortality
- rate 90%.
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