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Died. Lewis P. ("Lew") Reese, 59, granite-jawed Scio, Ohio (pop. 1,152) pottery manufacturer who turned an abandoned mill into a multimillion-dollar small-town bonanza; of a kidney ailment; in Pittsburgh. A West Virginia pottery worker, Reese scraped together $8,000 in 1932 to buy Scio's plant, mass-produced 5? teacups, saucers and plates to become the world's biggest producer of whiteware...
...lengths. Time for the mile and three-sixteenths: 1:57.4, good enough to snag the $86,135 winner's purse for Owner Arthur Abbott, a Rye, N.Y. ice-cream maker and former minor-league ballplayer. With Kentucky Derby Winner Hill Gail out of action with an ankle ailment, 1952's Triple Crown is already split. But Blue Man's showing puts him near the head of the class. ¶ The Navy crews (varsity, j.v. and freshmen), the Eastern sprint (2,000-meter) regatta; at Princeton, N.J. ¶ The California crew, an upset, over powerhouse Washington (by four...
Died. Franklin Lee Stevenson, 63, who, when down on his luck in 1924, hit upon an inspiration and a career as the "undertakers' poet laureate," at a starting fee of $1 a stanza; of a heart ailment; in Chicago. His idea blossomed into a service called the Poet's Study, which circulated Stevenson's booklets to more than 200 mortuaries, which in turn passed canned condolences to mourners. His own self-authored epitaph closes: "Ah, there's not a thing to fear...
Died. Dr. Juan Carlos Blanco, 72, Uruguay's first Ambassador to the U.S. (1941-48), onetime dean of the Washington diplomatic corps; delegate to the League of Nations and United Nations; of a heart ailment; in Montevideo...
Died. Miss Mary N. Winslow, 64, longtime civil servant, adviser to Nelson A. Rockefeller's Office of Inter-American Affairs during World War II; of a kidney ailment; in Washington...