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Anne Klein, outstanding American fashion designer who began her career at the age of 15 as a freelance sketcher in New York City, died at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital after a short illness. In 1948, Junior Sophisticates was launched, and Anne Klein & Co. was established in 1968. She was 51at the time of her death. (AP Photo/handout)