Deaths
Louis De Franklin Munger, inventor of the demountable automobile rim and manufacturer of bicycles, died of heart disease at the hotel, in July 1929. Morris Robinson, 75, a retired lawyer and former executive of I. Rokeach, Inc., makers of grocery products, died at the hotel in October 1952. He was a resident there for many years. Carlton Miles, playwright and theatrical agent, died of a heart attack at his Dauphin Hotel apartment in September 1954. He was the press agent for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne for fifteen years.
Corrado Muccini, of the Metropolitan Opera musical staff, died in his Dauphin Hotel apartment in March 1959. He was sixty years of age. Muccini was previously a conductor in his native Italy and South America before coming to the United States in 1953. Dr. George Louis Meylan, medical director of Columbia University died in his apartment at the hotel in February 1960. He was 86. A native of Le Brassus, Sweden, Meylan was Columbia's medical director from 1903 - 1929.
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