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R.J. Reynolds, Jr., in 1962, age 56, terminally ill with emphysema, caused by his lifelong smoking habit, holding an oxygen bottle. A photographer caught Dick during bitter divorce proceedings against his third wife, Muriel Marston Reynolds, outside the courthouse in Darien, Georgia. When this was taken, Dick had, he believed, only a short time to live - and would now spend some of it in a courtroom, doing battle with a woman he hated. When the divorce was at last final, he remarried Annemarie Schmidt, and died less than a year later, in Switzerland in December, 1964. Muriel fought on; the divorce would be overturned only to be later reinstated.
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