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Since seizing power 13 months ago, Strongman Sarit has spent most of his time abroad undergoing treatment for a chronic liver ailment in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, and then in Britain. Back home, his Chart Sang-khom Party seemed safely in control of two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, after an election he had decreed; his own man, General Thanom Kittikachorn, was Premier; young King Phumiphon was carefully holding himself above politics and giving no encouragement to the opposition. When a Soviet attaché and a Tass newsman spoke slightingly of Sarit this month, the government...
...Norton (real name: Mortimer J. Naughton), 69, who was known to millions through his role on stage (Ziegfeld Follies, Earl Carroll's Vanities) and screen (The Farmer's Daughter, The Fleet's In) as a staggering drunk, usually in top hat and tails; of a respiratory ailment; at Saranac Lake...
Both teams are suffering somewhat from injuries. The Indians' center half-back, Mitch Eagle, is out with a back ailment, and varsity captain Floyd Moloy is a very doubtful participant...
Died. Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, 66, stocky, devious, high-priced influence peddler during the Truman Administration; of a heart ailment; in Washington. Wire Puller Grunewald built up a well-placed circle of Washington friends in both parties, came to grief when House investigators first learned, in 1951, that he had bartered his influence to help settle income tax cases (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951 et seq.). The ailing (a series of heart attacks since 1953) Dutchman served only one sentence (90 days for violating probation), twice escaped jail on tax-fixing charges...
Died. Mary Roberts Rinehart, 82, genteel, hard-working novelist and mystery writer, whose 60 books (written over 46 years) sold more than 11 million copies; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Growing up in Allegheny, Pa., Mary Roberts studied to be a nurse, then married Surgeon Stanley Rinehart in 1896, bore three sons before she was 27. She wrote The Circular Staircase, first of her warmly human, quietly humorous mysteries, after a stock-market panic in 1903 threw the Rinehart family $12,000 in debt. When Staircase sold (1,250,000 copies so far), she went on writing, reached...