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Died. Burnet Rhett Maybank, 55, genial, aristocratic onetime (1939-41) governor of South Carolina, longtime (1941-54) U.S. Senator; of a heart ailment; in Flat Rock, N.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
WATKINS began his legal career in Vernal (pop. 3,000), Utah, where he also edited a weekly newspaper. When he was 33, he was forced to return to the farm for six years because of stomach ulcers. The ailment left effects that have plagued him ever since. During the first attack his hair turned snow-white. Says he: "I've been an old man since...
...dentists and 13,799 nurses. Bill for the postwar hospital-building program: $750 million. Hospital and medical care cost $4 billion since 1947 and now runs $600 million a year. The American Medical Association, wary of "socialized medicine," criticizes the free care given those vets with no service-connected ailment or injury. According to the General Accounting Office, the service-connected cases cared for by the VA are outnumbered about two to one by vets ill or injured after discharge...
Died. Irwin Edman, 57, witty, erudite chairman (1945-53) of Columbia University's philosophy department (a critic called him a "blend of Plato, Santayana and Manhattan") and frequent panelist on radio's Invitation to Learning and TV's Author Meets the Critics; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Died. Marquis Pierre de Chambrun, 89, great-great-grandson of the Marquis de La Fayette; of a heart ailment; in Marvejols, France. An honorary American citizen by virtue of his descent from La Fayette (and husband of Cincinnati-bred Margaret Rives Nichols), Old Statesman de Chambrun put in nearly half a century in the French government, is best remembered as the only Senator to vote against giving Marshal Petain dictatorial powers and establishing the sellout Vichy regime...