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Last week, after a month's bout with virus pneumonia and a heart ailment, former U.S. Senator Blair Moody. 52, of Michigan, died suddenly in the University of Michigan hospital at Ann Arbor. A onetime Washington correspondent for the Detroit News, Democrat Moody was appointed to Arthur Vandenberg's seat by Governor G. Mennen Williams in 1951 and lost it to Republican Charles Potter in 1952. To millions of TViewers across the nation, he was remembered as one of the three rambunctious "Young Turks" (the others: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and "Soapy" Williams) at the 1952 Democratic Convention...
...drive away. Quickly, a delivery crew assembled: Spanish-born Dr. Esteban Martin Martin. University of Wisconsin Medical Student Marvin Hinke and two visiting nurses. They picked up their black bags and set out in Dr. Martin's car. When it broke down (Martin's diagnosis: "Vascular ailment of the gas line"), the crew hiked the rest of the way to the patient's apartment...
Died. Albert S. (for Sidney) Camp, 61, longtime (1939-54) Democratic Congressman from Georgia; of a liver ailment; in Bethesda...
Died. Bennett Champ Clark, 64, onetime (1933-45) U.S. Senator from Missouri, son of the famed (1911-19) Speaker of the House Champ Clark; of a heart ailment; in Gloucester, Mass. As aide and understudy to his father, Bennett Clark, at 22, maneuvered desperately behind the scenes in the Democratic Convention of 1912 to help his father wrest the presidential nomination away from Woodrow Wilson. During his twelve years in the Senate, Clark alternately fought and supported the New Deal, in 1945 accepted an appointment to a U.S. circuit judgeship from Good Friend and Fellow Missourian Harry S. Truman, best...
Died. Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, 88, playwright (La Malquerida) and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1922; of a heart ailment; in Madrid...