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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being hospitalized in New York, the president said in a statement. He was 71. Robert Stewart Trump was born in 1948, the youngest of New York City real estate developer Fred Trump’s five children. Before divorcing his first wife, Blaine Trump, more than a decade ago, Robert Trump had been active on Manhattan’s Upper East Side charity circuit. In early March , he married his longtime girlfriend, Ann Marie Pallan. The eldest Trump sibling and Mary’s father, Fred Trump Jr., struggled with alcoholism and died in 1981 at the age of 43. The president’s surviving siblings include Elizabeth Trump Grau and Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal appeals judge.
When Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen put up $125 million in seed money for a Seattle institute focused on human immunology shortly before his death in late 2018, no one had any inkling a viral pandemic would strike within a year. The Allen Institute for Immunology’s emphasis was on cancers and diseases linked to a haywire immune system – like irritable bowel syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple myeloma. Allen himself died of complications of another immune-related cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. But now, the fledgling institute has taken on a new challenge: Unraveling the immune response to the novel coronavirus in hopes of speeding development of treatments and vaccines. Another goal is understanding why infection is mild for many people but fatal for others. Only a handful of research facilities in the U.S. have the capability to take such a deep dive into immune response, said Dr. Jim Heath, president of the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology. ISB is among them and is conducting a similar study with Swedish Health System.
Shawn Vestal recently wrote about a proposed cultural trail on Riverside Avenue highlighting “our coolest buildings” (notably featured in the 2012 National Trust for Historic Preservation National Conference), other cultural institutions and arts. The most significant section of the trail is framed by two buildings, the Chancery and Spokane Club, each Kirtland Cutter designs. The Chancery is at risk for demolition due to a design for a new city block proposed by the Cowles Real Estate Company. This would be a huge loss for Spokane on many levels. The Cowles family deserves credit for saving Spokane’s downtown by building River Park Square, repurposing Macy’s and the Chronicle Apartment building, as well as other contributions. They now have a opportunity to repurpose the Chancery, and work it into their larger downtown plan.
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