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Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

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Ilka Chase
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: April 8
Died: 1978
Died: February 15
Actor
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Novelist
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New York City
New York
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Simply
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Assembly
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