Milestones: May 20, 1966

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Died. Duncan Phillips, 79, art connoisseur and creator of Washington's magnificent Phillips Collection, through which he shared his treasures with the world; of heart disease; in Washington, D.C. (see ART).

Died. Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff, 89, bizarre German psychiatrist, famed throughout Europe in the early 1900s for her free-swinging approach to sex in such books as Erotic Rebirth, who later turned strident nationalist, blaming Germany's World War I defeat on Masons, Jesuits and, most particularly, Jews, and toured the country in flowing robes embroidered with Nordic symbols, preaching hate and accusing Hitler of being too far left; after pneumonia; in Tutzing, Germany.

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