Milestones: Jul. 7, 1961

Died. Richard Morland Tollemache Bethell, the 4th Baron Westbury, 46. unemployed ex-soldier heir of the legendary "Curse of the Pharaohs," which purportedly killed three kinsmen and numerous members of the 1922 archaeological team that excavated the more than 3,000-year-old tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen; of a heart attack; in Geneva. Secretary to the Egyptian expedition that uncovered the hieroglyphic anathema—"Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of the Pharaoh"—Lord Westbury 's father died six years after the discovery (also at 46), while his grandfather (who kept the Tut relics)...

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