Tag: The smell of burning rubber: the fatal illness of George Gershwin
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The smell of burning rubber: The fatal illness of George Gershwin
James L. FranklinChicago, Illinois, USA On the morning of Monday July 12, 1937, New Yorkers who had just suffered through five days of a heat wave that left thirty-eight people dead, awoke to read on the front page of the New York Times about the death of George Gershwin, a native son of their city.…