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Richard Thruelsen

Richard D. Thruelsen, Author and Editor, 81

Published: September 13, 1989

Richard D. Thruelsen, an author and magazine editor, died of cancer on Sunday at his home in Old Lyme, Conn. He was 81 years old.

Mr. Thruelsen was the author or co-author of four books, among them Mediterranean Sweep, a collection of stories detailing events that led to the liberation of Rome, which he co-wrote and which was published in 1944 by Duell, Sloan & Pearce.

From 1936 to 1962, he served as an editor for The Saturday Evening Post. He was a major in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II.

He was born in Hackensack, N.J., and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

Surviving are a son, Eric, of East Lyme; two daughters, Karen Ettlin-Thruelsen of Zurich and Anne Thruelsen of Boston, and a granddaughter.

Richard Thruelsen received his B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1930. After a period of flight training in the Air Corps and subsequent free-lance article- and fiction-writing for national magazines, he joined the Saturday Evening Post as an associate editor in 1936 and in 1958 became a senior editor of that magazine. He left the Saturday Evening Post in 1962 to work on various writing assignments for Pan American World Airways. During World War II Mr. Thruelsen served in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the 8th Bomber Command, based in England; in the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, based in Africa and Italy; and in the Pacific Theater.