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Pachinko-byo is an ailment new to the annals of medicine and peculiar to Japan. Its symptoms: blistered fingers, a sprained thumb and eyeballs that jiggle in their sockets like popcorn kernels tossed on to a hot griddle...
Died. Albert V. Moore, 72, cofounder and president of Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc., one of the world's largest passenger-cargo fleets (37 ships); of a heart ailment; in Queens...
Died. Hank Williams, 29, twangy-voiced singer and composer who at six began strumming a guitar, went into vaudeville at 14, rode to fame as "King of the Hillbillies" on broadcasts and recordings of his own hits (Lovesick Blues; Jambalaya; Cold, Cold Heart) ; of a heart ailment, while riding by car to a personal appearance date; near Oak Hill...
Died. Prince Yasuhito Chichibu. 50, younger brother of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; of a liver ailment complicated by chronic pleurisy; in his villa at Kugenuma, Japan. The Oxford-educated prince was in ill health during most of World War II, sat it out with Tokyo's military garrison. At war's end Chichibu became Western-minded again, avidly read American comic strips ("Li'l Abner ... I can't understand...
Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey." Died. Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox, 72, longtime (since 1925) Georgia member of the House of Representatives and second in seniority on the House Rules Committee; of a heart ailment; in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md. Shrewd, rabble-rousing Congressman Cox was convinced that the world is divided between white supremacists and potential Communists. He spent most of his career as art outspoken foe of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, labor leaders, foreigners and Negroes, and once blasted an anti-poll-tax bill as an "expression of venomous...